Trump Trade War

Trump Trade War

US President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Finland's President Alexander Stubb (not pictured), in the Oval office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, October 9, 2025. File Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Here is a timeline of Trump's trade war with China in 2025

Here are key events this year in the US-China trade war, in reverse chronological order

US President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping as they hold a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea, October 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Trump cuts China tariffs to 47% after 'amazing' Xi meeting

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Trump seeks trade war truce with China's Xi in South Korea talks

Soybeans are loaded into a truck from a transfer hopper during harvest season in Deerfield, Ohio, US, October 7, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Dane Rhys/File Photo

China buys US soybean cargoes ahead of Trump-Xi meet: sources

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick holds a chart as US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Major developments in Trump's trade war

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters at the US Capitol as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass US President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, June 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Phot

US, China hold new talks on tariff truce, easing path for Trump-Xi meeting

A container truck is unloaded from a truck at Tanjung Priok Port, following the announcement that U.S. President Donald Trump would impose tariffs of 32% on goods from Indonesia, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, July 8, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/File Photo

Indonesia says US trade deal reached after 'extraordinary struggle'

US President Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, July 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Trump says US will be fighting China 'in a very friendly fashion'

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters at the US Capitol as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass US President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, June 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Phot

Bessent no-show, BRICS tensions set to cast shadow over Durban G20 meeting

Gantry cranes stand near shipping containers as an Evergreen Marine Corp container ship, Ever Ace, is docked at Yangshan Port outside of Shanghai, China, June 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo

China's exports pick up as Trump tariff deadline looms

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a statement at the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, 7 March 2022 Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool via REUTERS

EU delays retaliatory tariffs on US goods, aims for deal by August 1

Bangladesh and US hold tariff talks on 11 July 2025. Photo: CA Press Wing

Dhaka, Washington yet to agree on 20% of US tariff conditions: BGMEA

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks to the media at the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 7, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Trump says he will speak to Lula at some point as Brazil downplays tariff impact