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They took note of that and have it under consideration.
So the presidents will talk about it if they need to.
Our hope and expectation is that we're able to manage a lot of it between now and then at the staff level.
I don't think we're going to need to do that, particularly when we were in Paris, we reached general agreement on the types of outcomes we want for the leaders meeting.
And right now, our deputies and our staff are in regular communication to try to land all those outcomes.
I think that one of them, and there's been a little bit of coverage on this, we've been talking about a board of trade, a U.S.-China board of trade, which really will be a mechanism to help manage trade over the past 10 years or so as the United States has tried to eliminate its trade deficit with China, figure out its export control situation.
If we can formalize the mechanism a little bit to make sure that we are โ
We can agree on things we are selling to each other.
For the U.S., we want to be selling Boeings.
We want to be selling medical devices, pharmaceuticals, ag products, things like that.
The Chinese want to be selling things to us, and we're willing to buy things like low-tech consumer goods and things like that, certain commodities that maybe the Chinese have that we don't.
And so establishing that type of mechanism at the leaders' meeting and then going through a process of figuring out how to optimize trade with each other, that's going to be a big deliverable.
Well, during 2025, President Trump, the administration, has essentially reset the global trading order to move from total liberal trade in the United States without any cost to a new fair and balanced approach.
We've announced lots of trade deals.
We've announced lots of tariffs, as you know.
In the coming year, we expect to finalize a bunch of those trade deals as well.
I think that the tariff plan is in good shape.
I think we have a lot of the tariffs we want in place.
If there are countries here and there that don't comply with their deals or don't want to finish a deal, then maybe we have to have another conversation.
But I think the economy's booming, inflation's down, wages are up.