Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will both travel to Geneva, Switzerlandare scheduled to meet later this week with Chinese representatives on trade and economic matters,

Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, will discuss trade and economic matters with the officials this week.

President Donald Trump’s top trade officials will be holding face-to-face trade talks with a Chinese economic official for the first time since the U.S. imposed punishing tariffs on China and set off a global trade war.

President Donald Trump, the dealmaker-in-chief, has said for weeks that at least one trade deal is imminent with one of the dozens of countries in active negotiations with the United States to avoid punishing tariffs.

Britain and India clinched a free trade agreement on Tuesday, in a landmark deal that represents London's most significant post-Brexit pact, and was finalised in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff increases.

The UK and India have agreed a trade deal to make it cheaper and easier to buy and sell goods and services to one another. The hope is that the deal will benefit the economies of both countries. The British government said the deal was the "biggest and most economically significant" trade agreement the UK had signed since leaving the European Union in 2020.