Trump says we know China tariffs will come down from 145 percent

By Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Thursday helium expects determination to beryllium substantive negotiations betwixt the United States and China connected commercialized this play and said tariffs couldn't get higher than 145 percent.

"You can't get immoderate higher. It's astatine 145, truthful we cognize it's coming down," Trump said. "I deliberation it's a precise affable meeting. They look guardant to doing it successful an elegant way."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and main commercialized negotiator Jamieson Greer volition conscionable China's economical tsar He Lifeng successful Switzerland this play for talks that could beryllium the archetypal measurement toward resolving a commercialized warfare disrupting the planetary economy.

Trump said helium believed China precise overmuch wanted to marque a deal. He said helium would similar to spot China unfastened up its economy.

"I deliberation we're going to person a bully play with China. I deliberation they person a batch to gain. I bash deliberation they person acold much to summation than we do, successful a sense," Trump said.

Asked if helium would talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping aft the talks, Trump said helium might.

"I might, yeah, sure," Trump said.

Trump said China had a "tremendous commercialized surplus" with the United States and that was unacceptable. "I would similar to spot China open," helium said.

Trump acceptable an optimistic code going into the play talks.

"I deliberation it's going to beryllium substantiative," helium said. "China wants to bash something, and look, they person to astatine this point."

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason; Editing by Mark Porter and Chizu Nomiyama)