# In a live interview, Professor Nicholas Economides shares his thoughts on the latest round of US-China trade negotiations

1 Faculty News November 4, 2019 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/goldman-sachs-sees-apparent-progress-193812770.html) -- "'I think it's likely that there will be some deal. It might not be a 100% deal, but it's likely to be an 80% or 90% deal by December. That would mean that tariffs would fall, and I don't think I agree 100% with Goldman when they say they expect tariffs to persist... My expectation is that there is going to be a deal and a big percentage of the tariffs are going to disappear by the beginning of 2020.'"

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