According to a White House statement on April 23, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin will travel to Beijing for trade talks that begin April 30.

The statement said that “The topics of discussion next week will be on trade issues, including intellectual property, forced technology transfer, non-tariff barriers, agriculture, services, procurement and enforcement.”

Beijing and Washington are seeking a deal to put an end to the fierce trade war, marked by the reciprocal imposition of tariffs, which cost the two largest countries in the world billions of dollars, destroyed supply chains and shocked financial markets.

A little earlier on Tuesday, April 23, Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, said the United States and China had made progress in the negotiations, and he was “cautiously optimistic” about the prospects for a deal.

“We have made tremendous progress. We have moved further and deeper, wider, larger than anything in the history of trade between the US and China, ”said the director of the White House National Economic Council, speaking at breakfast at the National Press Club in response to journalists' questions.

One of the main topics that will be discussed at the talks is, according to Larry Kudlow, "Reducing barriers to the purchase and sale of agricultural and industrial products."