production and mitigate any lost all production that you know india china and the others may may forego elmire from the share center in london thank you very much for joining us united states and china have been trying to negotiate a fresh trade deal for months spots from very different positions the american economy continues to defy expectations with strong employment and consumer demand in china economic signals often be taken with a pinch of salt but fresh figures suggest exports have unexpectedly fallen. particularly hard hit to exports to the u.s. in april these fell by fifteen point seven percent for months china and the u.s. have been slapping each other with tariffs so far talks have failed to resolve the conflict on twitter president donald trump expressed his frustration threatening to hike tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods from ten percent to twenty five percent this friday beijing says it wants to continue negotiations in washington this week that should also be in washington's interest u.s. exports to china have also fallen by more than thirty percent