Bessent says 19 finance ministers agreed ‘cheap exports’ are unsustainable, but China dissented

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ASHEVILLE, N.C.:Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that 19 of the members of the G20 had agreed to address streams of “cheap exports” that cause global economic imbalances, but said China had dissented. Bessent made his comments at the end of a two-day meeting with finance ministers and central bankers where he tried to focus on growth, telling reporters he had urged some of his G20 counterparts to take a page from the Trump administration’s playbook of using tariffs and other measures to crack down on trade imbalances. “We believe that non-market-based economies pushing out a never-ending stream of cheap…

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