“I can announce this in a week or two,” TASS quoted him as saying.

He made a corresponding statement, answering a question from journalists in the White House.

Earlier, US Treasury chief Stephen Mnuchin threatened China with serious consequences for not fulfilling the first phase of a trade deal between the two countries.

In January, Trump and Vice Premier of the State Council of China Liu He signed an agreement on the first phase of a trade deal between the two countries.