China confirms purchase of 200 Boeing jets after Trump-Xi summit

China has confirmed it will purchase 200 Boeing jets following a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week.

Under the deal, the United States will provide China with supply guarantees for aircraft engine parts and components, China’s Commerce Ministry said Wednesday.

The two sides also will work toward extending the tariff truce they agreed in October and seek tariff cuts on $30 billion or more of goods each, the ministry added.

The announcement came as Xi held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, just days after Trump’s visit to China.

Trump’s trip produced several pledges on trade between the world’s two largest economies, including the Boeing purchase and increased access for U.S. farmers to the Chinese market.

“We made a lot of great trade deals, including over 200 planes for Boeing, with a promise of 750 planes, which would be by far the largest order ever,” Trump told journalists on Air Force One after leaving China on Friday.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg was part of the U.S. delegation that traveled with Trump to China, which also included Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip giant Nvidia.

“We had a very successful trip to China and accomplished our major goal of reopening the China market to orders for Boeing aircraft,” Boeing said in a statement.

“This included an initial commitment for 200 aircraft and we expect further commitments will follow after this initial tranche,” it added.

Officials from China and the United States reached an agreement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before a Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea in October 2025 that extended their tariff truce until November this year.

That deal included a reduction to U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods and a pause to Beijing’s restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals and magnets.