Trade truce: US scheduling phone call with Chinese officials next week

The Trump administration is in the process of scheduling a phone call for next week between U.S. and Chinese trade principals, an official with the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Wednesday.

The call would mark the resumption of trade negotiations between the U.S. and Chinese ministerial-level officials for the first time since early May. It follows the declaration of another trade truce between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan last weekend.