By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -China wants to bring its trade ties with the U.S. back to a stable footing, its commerce minister said, adding that recent talks in Europe showed there was no need for a tariff war while urging the U.

M said it expects a gross tariff impact of 20 cents a share for the full year, down from its prior projection of 60 cents a share, thanks in part to easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China. CEO Bill Brown said most of the materials maker’s tariff costs are related to China,

How, then, to explain the resilience of China’s exports in the turmoil of the global trade war? Some companies have been “front-loading”, or shipping extra goods to America, on fears that the truce will not hold and levies will increase further later.

M on Friday raised its full-year profit forecast and projected a smaller tariff-related hit to its 2025 earnings, amid easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, sending shares of the industrial giant up nearly 4% in premaket trading.

China accounted for 5.89% of all U.S. trade in May, its lowest percentage in decades. Trump’s tariffs or trade trickery? It’s hard to dispute it’s a remarkable shift.

Since US President Donald Trump – just days into his second term – began imposing tariffs on China for its role in the flow of deadly opioids like fentanyl into the United States, Beijing’s message has been clear.

American companies in China are reporting record-low investment plans and declining confidence in profits this year. A survey by the U.S.

Long before President Trump wielded tariffs as a weapon to punish Indonesia, the country was fighting back a flood of cheap Chinese goods.

As the U.S. and China finalized a trade agreement, Beijing pitched itself at the “Summer Davos” summit as an antidote to global economic “confusion and anxiety.”

On his third trip to China in a year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang – head of the world’s most valuable company – was on a full-blown charm offensive. As a guest of honour at the China International Supply Chain Expo,