WASHINGTON, D.C.: Washington and Beijing are “miles and miles” from resolving their trade war, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

A high-level Chinese delegation is due in Washington next week for talks to resolve the dispute by March 1, when US duty rates on Chinese imports are due to rise sharply, but Ross tried to tamp down expectations to those meetings.

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