Mnuchin: 'No deadline' for second round of China trade talks

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that the administration had no timeline for completing phase two of its trade negotiations with Beijing, and that getting a deal before the 2020 election was not necessarily a goal.

“We dealt with a lot of important issues in phase one,” Mnuchin said during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “If we get it done before the election, good. If not, fine. There’s no deadline.”