Trump has held up tariffs as a negotiating tool with China and claimed talks are ongoing, but Beijing says so far there have not been any negotiations.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if the U.S. can't reach deals with other countries in the "next two or three weeks," he'll choose the tariff to place on them. The president told reporters in the Oval Office that the U.

Members of Donald Trump's cabinet gave conflicting messages on Sunday about whether negotiations with China over tariffs are taking place, as the Republican president has asserted. The Trump administration signaled openness last week to de-escalating a trade war between the world's two largest economies that has raised fears of recession.