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

Japanese trade minister Hiroshi Kajiyama on Tuesday offered to help India resolve "outstanding issues" that pushed the South Asian country toward withdrawing from a sprawling Asia-Pacific free trade agreement.

Since US President Donald Trump took office in 2017, US trade relations with China has been a rollercoaster ride. Hopes of a trade deal wax and wane, exhausting investors and sending manufacturers scrambling to find ways around costly tariffs.

With a good deal of its rule-based system not adhered to by mighty economies and the vision of multilateralism going off-track, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after more than a decade of its inception looks more like a monitoring body than what it was meant to be - the key global instrument for ensuring coherence and order in international trade through mitigating asymmetries among global trading patterns and practices.

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.

As a major regional investor and security partner, Tokyo is stepping up

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will visit China next week for a trilateral summit with Japan amid rising tension over stalled denuclearization talks between North Korea and the United States, Moon’s office said on Tuesday.

Vietnam and the Czech Republic have experienced sound growth in their trade revenue so far this year, according to the Czech Statistical Office.