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Senior aides push back on Trump’s claim that China agreed to cut auto tariffs
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WRITETHRU (EDITORS: Updates with White House correcting Larry Kudlow to say the 90-day trade truce with China began on Dec. 1.)
By Jim Puzzanghera
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers pushed back Monday on his claim that China has agreed to eliminate tariffs on U.S. auto imports, saying no such agreement had been struck.
The unusual dispute was the latest to suggest that Trump’s handshake agreement on trade during a working dinner Saturday night in Argentina with Chinese President Xi Jinping remains open to divergent interpretation, even in the White House.
On Sunday night, after returning to the White...
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