U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders on Friday aimed at identifying abuses that are causing massive U.S. trade deficits and clamping down on non-payment of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports, his top trade officials said.

The “phase one” US-China trade deal will nearly double US exports to China over the next two years and is “totally done” despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunday.

President Trump’s initial retreat from his trade-war threats has handed hard-liners in China a victory. A longer, pricklier trade war and stiff Chinese resistance to economic reforms could result.

China and the US have reached an initial deal to resolve a bruising trade war between the two countries, according to statements from both sides.

The White House has reached a “deal in principle” with Beijing to resolve the 17-month US-China trade war, according to a source briefed on the trade talks.

US and Chinese officials are working on a deal to postpone a round of tariffs set to hit Chinese imports in five days, according to a media report on Tuesday (Dec 10).

Vietnam is under rising US pressure to stop transshipment of tariff-dodging China-made goods

American and Chinese negotiators are reportedly working to delay a new round of US tariffs on Chinese imports set to kick in on December 15. The Wall Street Journal says this is so they can continue talks even if they can't reach a deal by the date.

The appeal court at the World Trade Organisation has disintegrated after the tenure of two of its final three judges expired, with China laying the blame squarely at the feet of the United States.

Tariffs are the key weapon of US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, and thus they are also the key to eventually unlocking the intractable problems of the marathon US-China trade negotiation. Any good deal should include the removal of punitive tariffs.