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- President Donald Trump unveiled an interim trade agreement with China last week, marking a major de-escalation in trade tensions in the global economy.
- The 86-page text of the agreement is expected to be signed in January following routine legal checks and a translation process.
- Here's what is included so far in the so-called phase-one deal, which has not yet been made public.
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President Donald Trump unveiled an interim trade agreement with China last week, marking a major de-escalation in trade tensions in the global economy.
The 86-page text of the agreement is expected to be signed in January following routine legal checks and a translation process. But it did not resolve all of the issues in a more than yearlong trade dispute between the two sides.
"Anyone who thinks you're going to take their system and our system that have- that have worked in a very unbalanced way for the United States and in- in one stroke of the pen change all of that is foolish," US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Sunday on CBS. "The president is not foolish. He's very smart. The question was, how big was the first phase going to be?"
Here's what is included so far in the so-called phase-one deal, which has not yet been made public.