Trump: China not a currency manipulator

Published April 12, 2017 8:05pm ET



President Trump will not name China a currency manipulator this year, despite repeated campaign promises to do so on his first day in office.

Trump told the Wall Street Journal Wednesday that he will not officially name China a currency manipulator in a forthcoming report because the country, he said, hasn’t recently been artificially manipulating the yuan and because doing so would hurt the U.S. in negotiating with China over North Korea.

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