The U.S. and China have reached an agreement — again — to deescalate trade tensions. China is making it easier for U.S. companies crucial magnets and rare earths materials.

The total value of goods exchanged between the US and China plunged below 2020's pandemic era low in the second month of the new tariff war between two nations.

SEOUL (Reuters) -The U.S. has demanded South Korea join efforts to curb China in trade talks, as the countries discuss cooperation in shipbuilding, a senior official from Seoul's trade ministry said on Friday.

China's economy is expected to have expanded more than five percent in the second quarter thanks to strong exports, analysts say, but they warned Donald Trump's trade war could cause a sharp slowdown in the final six months.

China's June new yuan loans tripled compared with a month ago, likely supported by front-loaded public funding and strength in corporate loans against the backdrop of a sustained trade truce between China and the United States.

No date has been specified for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s meeting with President Trump in Washington but Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez said that it would happen “very soon” this month.

The U.S. pork industry exports about 55 percent of pork offal, sometimes called pork variety meats, to China, according to the National Pork Producers Council. These are the internal organs of hogs, like the kidneys, liver and tongue, which are commonly used in Chinese dishes but are not a part of most American diets.

Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro ripped into Apple's reliance on China on Monday. Leaving the country might be harder than Trump thinks, analysts say.

The U.S. gets almost all of its fireworks from China, and the industry is warning that tariffs on Chinese imports could limit supply and send prices soaring.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet with China's leader Xi Jinping on an upcoming trip he said Friday would focus on closer business ties.

A flash flood that originated in Tibet’s Lhende river and surged into the Bhotekoshi river has left a trail of destruction in northern Rasuwa, a mountain district in Bagmati province. The downstream devastation has been immense, damaging infrastructure, sweeping away vehicles, and leaving at least nine dead and 19 missing.