China always believes that economic and trade cooperation between countries should not target any third party or harm the interests of any third party, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday regarding the reciprocal trade agreement recently reached between the U.S. and Indonesia.
"China has always advocated that economic and trade cooperation between countries should be mutually beneficial and relevant cooperation should not target any third party or harm the interests of any third party," Mao Ning, the spokeswoman, said when asked for comment on the trade deal at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
Under the deal, Indonesia will cut trade barriers on more than 99 percent of U.S. goods entering Indonesia, and the United States will apply a 19-percent reciprocal tariff on imports from Indonesia, with certain products granted a zero percent rate.
China says U.S.-Indonesia trade cooperation should not jeopardize third party interests
