UPDATE 1-China confirms Vice Premier Liu to visit U.S. for trade talks Jan 30-31
Liu's scheduled visit follows lower-level negotiations held in Beijing last week aimed at resolving a bitter trade dispute between the world's two largest economies ahead of a scheduled March 2 escalation of U.S. tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
Commerce ministry spokesman Gao Feng confirmed Liu's visit during a weekly press briefing.
A source familiar with White House planning for the negotiations said this week that Liu had accepted an invitation to go to Washington for talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the last two days of January. (Reporting by Stella Qiu and Tony Munroe; editing by Darren Schuettler)
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