Weekend - US trade rep Lighhizer says 90 days is a hard deadline for China

U.S. trade representative Lighthizer says 90 days is a 'hard deadline' for China trade deal

March 1 "a hard deadline", new tariffs will be imposed otherwise

• "As far as I am concerned it is a hard deadline. When I talk to the president of the United States he is not talking about going beyond March"

March 1 is the deadline he says

• "The way this is set up is that at the end of 90 days, these tariffs will be raised"

Lighthizer was speaking in an interview on CBS, Reuters with the report

Lighthizer seems to have the 'bad cop' role.