US President Donald Trump has said that he is considering signing the first phase of the long-awaited trade deal with China in Iowa.

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping were expected to ink the agreement at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago, Chile, in mid-November. But host Chile announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling the event due to ongoing mass demonstrations.

“We’re moving along with the deal with China. China wants to make the deal very much and we have a good relationship and we’ll see what happens. I don’t like to talk about deals until they happen, but we’re making a lot of progress,” Trump told reporters on the South lawns of the White House.

“I’m looking at a different couple of locations. Could even be in Iowa…What we are discussing the location but I like to get deals done first,” he said.Earlier in the day, Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the negotiations with China on a trade deal are going quite well.