President Trump said Thursday he will cut U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods after he sat down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a high-stakes summit in South Korea in the midst of a months-long trade war between the world's two largest economies.

The US president says: "On the scale from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12." Beijing says the results were "hard won".

China’s leader agreed to delay restrictions on rare earth minerals for a year and buy more soybeans, Trump said after a meeting designed to calm trade tensions.

President Donald Trump says he has decided to lower his combined tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods to 47% after talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on curbing fentanyl trafficking.

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"We have not too many major stumbling blocks," Trump said of a formal trade agreement after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

China has reported its factory activity contracted for a seventh straight month in October, reflecting pressure from higher U.S. tariffs and sluggish domestic demand

U.S. tariffs have acted as a negative demand shock for a small open economy like New Zealand's, Prasanna Gai, a member on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's rate setting committee, said on Friday. At an event in Melbourne,