(Reuters)
BEIJING, March 27 – China’s commerce ministry has initiated two counter-probes into U.S. practices that hamper the flow of Chinese products into the United States, it said on Friday, refraining from immediate retaliation to U.S. measures announced earlier this month.
A trade truce between China and the U.S. has held since U.S. President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in October last year. Trump said earlier this week that he will visit Beijing in mid-May, as part of Washington’s broader effort to reset relations in the Asia-Pacific region.
The two Chinese investigations – scheduled to conclude within six months, though they could be extended – are in response to two U.S. Section 301 investigations against China, the ministry said in a statement, describing them as reciprocal.
