The White House spoke on Thursday (26.6.2025) for progress on commercial exchanges with Chinawith a presidency official clarifying that the two parties have ratified an agreement that is in particular the acceleration of rare land traditions in the US.
Donald Trump said during an event that Washington “signed” an agreement on trade with China, but without giving any more details. White house official then made it clear to AFP that Washington and Beijing ratified an agreement that had been closed in negotiations between the two governments.
Asked about Donald Trump’s Sibylt statement, US Secretary of Commerce Haward Lutnik mentioned speaking to Bloomberg’s television service in London negotiations, stressing that a framework agreement, which required approval at the top level, ” Partners. “They will deliver us rare land” and once they do this, “we will lift our countermeasures,” Latnik said in an interview with Bloomberg News.
In mid -June, the US and China agreed in London the “general framework” for resolving their trade seals, but remained to be validated by the presidents of the two largest financial planet. These negotiations followed those of May in Geneva, in which the two sides agreed to temporarily reduce the level of prohibitive customs duties imposed on each other.
Rare lands have been a key to negotiations in the British capital, with the US claiming to accelerate the pace of traditions of these strategic importance, which the White House considers unacceptably low.
These raw materials are critical for a variety of species, from electric batteries (for vehicles, for energy storage, etc.), to wind systems, passing through defense industry products (rockets, radar, satellites …).
Beijing was waiting for Washington to revise the control of exports of exports of specific US products, above all technology, to the China market.