Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that he held telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed to hold “productive” discussion at an upcoming tariff talks between the two s

Officials from the U.S. and China spoke on the phone Thursday for the first time since the world’s two largest economies agreed to scale back tariffs for 90 days earlier this month.U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Chinese Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu “acknowledged the importance of the bilateral relationship to the people of both countries and the world,

Vietnam and the United States this week concluded a second round of trade negotiations, as the Southeast Asian industrial hub seeks a deal to avoid a 46% tariff rate on Vietnamese goods, imposed largely due to its big trade surplus with Washington.

Vietnam says it’s made positive progress in the second round of trade talks with the US, as it seeks to secure a deal to avert a cripplingly high US tariff.

As uncertainty continues surrounding the future of President Trump's tariffs, a group of U.S. lawmakers, including Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, spent Friday talking trade with Canada.

TARIFF TALK ON TRACK — Wary of fraying relations between the federal government and one of Massachusetts’ largest trading partners. Gov. Maura Healey and other northeastern governors began looking for a way to bolster their economic ties with Canada, inviting leaders from a handful of Canadian provinces to Boston to talk at a time TBD.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa broke up stern trade talks at the White House with a joke about wishing he had a gift for the president.

South Korea sent a delegation to Washington to hold a second round of technical discussions this week over the Trump administration's proposed "reciprocal" tariffs, Seoul's Trade Ministry said Tuesday.

Japan's top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa plans to visit Washington from Friday to Sunday for negotiations over U.S. tariffs, he said on Thursday.

President Donald Trump promised that his administration would be able to make quick trade deals with more than 50 trading partners. But halfway into his self-imposed deadline, talks have gotten bogged down.