美國新財長:不急於評判中國匯率政策

Steven Mnuchin, the new US Treasury secretary, has retreated from Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to quickly brand China a currency manipulator, signalling that there was no urgency to draw conclusions about the strength of the renminbi.

美國新任財政部長史蒂文?姆努欽(Steven Mnuchin，上圖前排右一)並未落實唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump，上圖前排右二)有關很快把中國列爲匯率操縱國的競選承諾，他暗示，不急於對人民幣匯率水平做出結論。

Mr Mnuchin said Treasury would proceed with the normal process of determining if China was manipulating its exchange rate, meaning there would be no announcement on the issue before a regular Treasury report due in April.

姆努欽表示，財政部將履行正常流程，以判定中國是否操縱匯率，這意味着財政部於4月發佈定期報告之前，不會對此問題做出任何聲明。

“We have a process within Treasury where we go through and look at currency manipulation across the board, and we’ll go through that process,” Mr Mnuchin told CNBC. “We’ll do that as we have in the past and we’re not making any judgments until we continue that process.”

“我們在財政部內部有一個流程，我們通過它來考察世界各國的匯率操縱情況，我們將會走這一流程，”姆努欽告訴美國財經新聞頻道CNBC。“我們會像過去一樣做，在走完這個過程之前，我們不做任何評判。”

During the presidential campaign, Mr Trump pledged to brand China a currency manipulator on his first day in office. However, he told the Wall Street Journal just before his inauguration that he would first talk to the Chinese government.

在競選期間，特朗普承諾在他上任第一天就把中國列爲成爲匯率操縱國。然而，他在就職之前告訴《華爾街日報》(WSJ)，首先他將與中國政府談談這一問題。

Mr Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker who assumed the Treasury role last week, said the administration wanted to pass “very significant” tax reform by August — a goal that many experts believe is overly optimistic given divisions among Republicans on Capitol Hill and differences with the White House over what to include in the reform.

上週就任財長的高盛前銀行家姆努欽表示，特朗普政府想在8月前通過“非常重大的”稅務改革方案——許多專家認爲這個目標過於樂觀了，因爲對於改革應該包括什麼內容，國會中的共和黨議員內部，以及國會與白宮之間都存在分歧。