USA and China Trade Problems – level 1

24-05-2019 07:00

The USA and China meet. They want to make trade deals. There are some problems. The USA says that it will make China pay more to sell things in the USA. China says that it will make the USA pay more to sell things in China.

People do not like this. The stock market falls.

President Trump says that the USA needs to be strong. It needs to make money. He wants to work with China. He is going to meet with China in Japan.

Difficult words: trade deal (when countries decide how they will buy or sell things to each other), will (in the future), the stock market (a market where people buy and sell parts of businesses).

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