<span style="color: #222222;">Two days of talks between US and Chinese negotiators, to break the deadlock over trade, ended without reaching any agreement. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The US-China talks this week were the first since discussions in June remained inconclusive.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">White House spokeswoman, Lindsay Walters said in a statement that the delegations exchanged views on how to achieve fairness, balance and reciprocity in the economic relationship. However, she did not mention further talks. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A Chinese Commerce Ministry statement said the talks were constructive and frank but gave no details. It said the two sides would maintain contact.  </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The dispute over China's high-tech industrial policy escalated yesterday as the Trump administration and Beijing imposed taxes on an additional 16 billion US Dollars of each other's goods. </span><br />'' <br />