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A Customs and Border Protection official told a judge the government won’t be able to process refund demands for the remaining one-third of entries right away.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said preparations for President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are on track.

The move is a direct mirror of steps President Trump took to revive his tariff agenda after the Supreme Court last month struck down some of his tariffs.

The deal will now be further negotiated by EU trade representatives Maroš Šefčovič and his U.S. counterpart Jamieson Greer, who are meeting March 27.

The uncertainty has weighed on soybean prices, with Chicago futures headed for a weekly drop of around 4.5%, the most in nearly a year.

The European Parliament’s trade committee will vote March 19 on the accord, which will then go to a full plenary vote later this month or in April.

China’s international trade representative said the Chinese side had expressed concern about trade investigations into manufacturing in foreign countries that the U.S. has launched.

President Trump has suggested he may delay the trip as he seeks to ramp up the pressure on Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and calm oil prices that have soared during the Iran war.

The talks pave the way for President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping that is tentatively set for March 31-April 2.

The Trump administration said it’s making progress on building a web-based portal to handle refund requests for almost $170 billion in global tariffs that were overturned by the Supreme Court.