As Boeing's stock rises on a new foreign deal, US officials signal China may be next to order planes

Boeing's stock climbed Tuesday after the American aerospace giant announced a significant jetliner order from Uzbekistan and as optimism builds around a potentially larger aircraft sale to China.

David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China, said he thinks negotiations over a possible deal involving Boeing and China are likely in their “final” days or weeks.

“This is a huge order, and it's very important to the president, very important to Boeing,” Perdue said Tuesday while visiting China with a group of U.S. lawmakers. The ambassador did not give details on the pending transaction.

Perdue's comments came a day after Boeing said that Uzbekistan Airways would buy up to 22 of its 787 Dreamliners. The Central Asian nation's flag carrier plans to acquire 14 of the widebody passenger plane