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US-China trade dispute

  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Huawei Technologies
    US warns against using Huawei chips ‘anywhere in the world’

    Commerce department guidance aims to toughen export controls on tech used by China to make AI processors

    Huawei logo and the Oriental Pearl Tower near Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street in Huangpu district of Shanghai, China
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
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    Ports and shipping companies expect surge in demand as retailers take advantage of lower tariffs on Chinese imports

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  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
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    China criticises UK trade deal with US

    Security conditions in pact agreed by Trump and Starmer seen as targeting Beijing

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump shaking hands
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
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    De-escalation and the damage done Premium content

    Lower China tariffs are great news, up to a point

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  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
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    Global markets advanced yesterday after the world’s two biggest economies reduce punitive levies

  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
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    Deal stokes optimism among investors that Donald Trump will de-escalate trade war

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    Secret meeting in IMF basement paved way for tariff deal seen on both sides as a victory

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    Equities, dollar and oil advance after world’s biggest economies reduce punitive levies

  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    China and US agree to slash tariffs

    Deal to reduce duties for next 90 days marks first sign of tension easing between the two economic superpowers

    US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a press conference
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    An uneasy US-China détente on tariffs

    Uncertainty around Trump’s trade war has not gone away

    Boxes of goods in a loading area at an industrial park in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    Tariffs are a bet on the free market rather than free trade

    Innovation has stalled in a globalised era dominated by state-sponsored national champions

    US President Donald Trump holds a tariff chart
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    Beijing and London’s pacts with US create exceedingly uncertain future

    Scott Bessent speaks at a desk with US flags in the background
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    US claims ‘substantial progress’ after trade talks with China

    Markets rise and gold weakens as American and Chinese officials seek to de-escalate tensions

    (L-R) US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and trade representative Jamieson Greer
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    Chinese companies purge supply chain of foreign parts amid US trade war

    Beijing’s self-reliance drive accelerates as groups seek out local suppliers in response to tariffs

    A worker assembles industrial robots at a production workshop of Nanjing Estun Automation in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
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    Colombian plan to join Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative triggers threat from Washington

    Coffee harvesting in Colombia: the country’s businesses worry that the US could turn to their competitors for commodity imports
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    China and US kick off high-stakes trade talks in Geneva

    Meeting between He Lifeng and Scott Bessent comes a day after Donald Trump said he was open to cutting tariffs

    Treasury secretary Scott Bessent leaves his hotel ahead of trade talks with He Lifeng
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    Trump signals openness to cutting China tariffs ahead of Geneva talks

    US president suggests reduction to 80% as Beijing announces increase in global exports

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    Trump says 80% tariff on China ‘seems right’ ahead of trade talks

    US president stakes out position as Treasury secretary heads to Geneva for negotiations

    The Chinese and US flags are seen fluttering side by side
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    Vice-premier with close links to leader seen as ‘more difficult interlocutor’ for Washington

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    China reports bumper April exports ahead of crucial trade talks with US

    Data shows a rise in shipments to south-east Asia and Europe offsets drop to America

    A cargo train at a port in Yantai in China’s eastern Shandong province
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    EU-China relations
    EU companies in China see some benefit from Trump’s trade war

    Survey finds high tariffs hurting European businesses but also offering chance to win market share from US rivals

    A worker pushes a cart of goods for export in a warehouse in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China in April 2025
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
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    A resilient US economy can withstand the Trump tariff shock

    International trade and American growth have bounced back from big setbacks before

    A container ship at the Port of Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
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    US scraps Biden-era rule that aimed to limit exports of AI chips

    Prospect of overhaul to planned regulation offers relief to semiconductor companies such as Nvidia

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  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Chinese economy
    China cuts key interest rate to 1.4%

    Central bank reduces lenders’ reserve requirements as policymakers take action over US trade war

    Pan Gongsheng is seated at a press conference
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    US and China to launch formal trade talks

    Washington dispatches Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to meet Chinese counterparts in Switzerland

    A container ship arrives at a port in Lianyungang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
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