" At 11 pm on the 13th, the State Council of the State Council held a press conference to announce the Chinese statement, announcing that China and the United States reached an agreement on the first phase of the economic and trade agreement text.The staff attended the press conference were Han Jun (from left), deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Ministry, Guo Weimin, deputy director of the Journalism Office of the State Council of China, Ning Jizhen, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Finance and Economics Committee, deputy director of the Ministry of FinanceMinister Liao Yan, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Zheng Zeguang, and Deputy Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of the Ministry of Commerce Wang Shouwen.(Reuters)

In response to China -China and the United States, the first -stage trade agreement was reached by the United States to reach the first phase of trade agreement. Chinese scholars interviewed believed that this shows that US President Trump is anxious because of elections and no longer pursue a full -scale agreement. He is willing to make a lot to China.Concession.

Zhang Jianxin, a professor at the Department of International Political Department of Fudan University, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post: The initiative of the Sino -US trade agreement is in the United States, and the two parties can reach an agreement at this time point, which means that the United States will definitely make concessions.

Zhang Jianxin pointed out that the decline in the polls of the Greater Agricultural State and the impeachment case initiated by the Democratic Party caused Trump's 2020 presidential election pressure to increase the pressure. Therefore, he no longer insisted on the full agreement that he had pursued in the tweet, and heWilling to accept a phased agreement with one of the main contents of China's procurement of a large number of American agricultural products.

After 22 months of consultation, China and the United States finally reached a 86 -page trade agreement to press the suspension button for the tariff war.The United States claims that this is a historic and executable agreement. China claims that agreements are conducive to strengthening Sino -US economic and trade cooperation, effective management and control differences, and also conducive to enhancing global market confidence, stabilizing market expectations, and creating a good environment for normal economic and trade and investment activities.

Beijing held a high -standard press conference at 11:00 last night to dispatch five deputy ministerial officials, including the deputy director of the China National Development and Reform Commission Ning Jizhen, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance Liao Yan, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Han Jun, deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralAnd Wang Shouwen, deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce and deputy representative of the International Trade Negotiation, introduced the content of the agreement and answered questions together.Washington also issued a statement and holding a press conference at the same time at the same time, as well as the presidential post and meeting with the reporter.

Beijing and Washington announced the content of the agreement according to their respective focus, among which there are differences in the expressions of tariffs, agricultural products, and execution mechanisms.

【Tariff】

The two sides are consistent with the statement of not imposing new tariffs.US President Trump promised not to impose 15%tariffs on Chinese products of about $ 160 billion (about S $ 217 billion) tomorrow (15th).Increase tariffs on imported products on imports of US imports.

In terms of existing tariffs, the United States announced that the tariff rate imposed on September 1 this year will increase the tariff rate of about $ 120 billion in Chinese goods, from 15%to 7.5%, but earlier earlierThe 25%tariffs are kept unchanged.

Related Chinese expressions are more vague.China stated that the United States will fulfill the promise of tariffs on products improving Chinese products in stages and realize the transformation of tariffs from rising to fall.

When it was required to confirm the specific range of tariff reduction in the United States, Ning Jizhen did not answer questions positively last night. Instead, he stated that the specific content and data will be released in the future because the agreement text is performing the review procedure.

【Agricultural Products】

In terms of purchasing agricultural products, Trump said that China agreed to purchase a large number of agricultural, energy and manufacturing products, and also said that farmers had to go out to buy a larger tractor because the agreement means that there will be more and more business.

The US trade representative Leitshizo told reporters in the White House yesterday that China agreed to purchase 200 billion US dollars in the next two years, which will increase the average annual scale of agricultural products imported from the United States to US $ 40 billion to $ 50 billion.

This means that the scale of American agricultural products that China will import in the future will double more than before the trade war.According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture of China, the size of the US agricultural products imported from 2015 to 2017 averaged $ 24.2 billion.

Shi Yinhong, a professor at the School of International Relations of Renmin University of China, was worried in the interview that the agreement determined that China will purchase huge US agricultural products, but such a scale may be unsustainable.The United States wants China to buy $ 45 billion in agricultural products next year.I'm afraid difficulties will stay in the future.

China is unwilling to disclose the specific scale of the purchase of American agricultural products, but it emphasizes the import of US agricultural products in conducive to filling China's supply and demand gap, and the agreement will also help expand the export of Chinese agricultural products to the United States.

In response to a question of whether a large number of US agricultural products will impact on Chinese agriculture, Han Jun, deputy minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, emphasized that this is an agreement on equal, mutually beneficial, and win -win cooperation.He pointed out that the United States has recently allowed China to be eligible to export self -produced raw materials to the United States, and China has become one of the three countries that are qualified to export catfish to the United States.In addition, the United States also agreed to allow China to export fragrant pears, citrus, and fresh jujube to the United States, and made positive commitments in the agreement to dismiss the automatic detention of Chinese -American water products as soon as possible.

【Execution Mechanism】

The US Trade Representative Office wrote in a statement that the agreement has established a strong dispute resolution mechanism to ensure that the content of the agreement is effectively implemented.When asked about the execution mechanism by the US media, Liao Yan did not make a positive response last night, and the Chinese statement did not mention the dispute resolution mechanism.

【Intellectual Property】

The two sides are roughly the same on the statement of intellectual property protection.The US statement said that China agreed to conduct structural reforms in intellectual property rights, scientific and technological transfer, and financial services.Wang Shouwen introduced last night that the contents of China and the United States reached consensus in this regard include, the protection of business secrets, intellectual property issues related to drugs, prolonged patent validity periods, geographical signs, piracy and counterfeit, fake piracy and counterfeiting on the e -commerce platform, cracking down on piracy and counterfeitingThe production and export of products, the malicious registration of trademarks, and the enhancement of the judicial implementation and procedures of intellectual property.(Lianhe Morning News Beijing Special Commissioner You Run Tian report)