Though Osaka provided a signal of some hope for future China-US negotiations, reality indicates that negotiators have several thorny issues to confront before reaching the light at the end of the tunnel: normalized trade relations.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross discusses license applications from U.S. technology companies to sell to Huawei Technologies Co, China's imports of U.S. agriculture products, and sharing citizenship information related to the U.S. census.

China is looking at buying more American agricultural products, Kudlow says

President Trump and President Jinping’s Osaka meeting marks a chance to reboot China-US relations. The two leaders would be wise to capitalize on new and promising opportunities for cooperation over competition.

Some Chinese enterprises have inquired with U.S. exporters about the purchase of agricultural produce and applied for the lifting of tariffs on the products in accordance with the regulations of the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, Chinese authorities said Sunday.

China made its biggest purchase of U.S. sorghum since April last week, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data issued on Thursday, as Washington and Beijing revive discussions to end their trade war.

U.S. and Chinese senior officials spoke by phone on Thursday in Washington, according to USTR.

Trade negotiations are at standstill as Washington weighs how much business with telecom-equipment giant to allow.

“As for United States’ so-called ‘because China’s economy is slowing so China urgently hopes to reach an agreement with the U.S. side’, this is totally misleading.”