Beijing's top trade official says China and the United States have agreed to work on extending a deadline for new tariffs on each other after two days of trade talks in Stockholm.

Deadline looms, extension stalls without Mr Trump’s go-ahead while China is less willing to offer concessions. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese and American trade negotiators concluded their two-day meeting in Stockholm without a clear path forward to avert tariffs from skyrocketing back to ultra-high levels that formed an effective blockade on trade between the world’s two largest economies.