About to complete the first period agreed between the two countries, the United States and China their commercial truce extended for another 90 days and thus delayed the rise of duty Between the two greatest powers in the world.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to make the extension effective, which was also confirmed by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, according to press reports.
The news transcended just hours before midnight, when the pause in the tariffs previously agreed between both nations came to an end, which had kept analysts, merchants and consumers in tension and raised the concern in the markets.
Breaking: President Trump Extends The Trace Truce with China for Another 90 Days, Delaying to Showdown Between The World’s Two Biggest Economies. https://t.co/k2k4jp2kgb
– The Associated Press (@ap) August 12, 2025
With the extension of the truce then a new waiting compass opens while the complicated negotiations between Washington and Beijing continue. The last round of direct dialogue between both parties had taken place at the end of July in Stockholm, Sweden.
The pause, which has been well received inside and outside both countries, offers both governments a margin to solve some of their differences and could clear the way for a summit at the end of this year between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to The agency AP.
For Sean Stein, president of the United States-China Business Council, the extension is “crucial” to give both parties to negotiate “a commercial agreement that US companies expect to improve their access to the market in China and provide the necessary certainty for companies to make plans in the medium and long term,” says the office.
For its part, the Chinese Foreign Ministry had declared Monday that it expected “efforts” by Washington to achieve a “positive result based on equality, respect and mutual benefit.”
Postponed tensions
The new truce between the two powers takes place after the entry into force last week of new tariffs for a large number of countries in the United States, including the main commercial partners of Washington such as the European Union, Canada and Japan.
In this context, “higher tariffs on Chinese products, the second largest import source in the United States, would have increased almost certainly the costs that many US companies and consumers could pay – or are already paying – due to the largest import taxes promulgated by Trump”, points CNN.
As part of the commercial war promoted by the Republican president, the United States and China lived an unusual tariff climb in April that hit company and markets.
The Trump administration imposed tariffs of up to 145 % on Chinese products, a measure to which Beijing responded by raising up to 125 % the taxes to US imports.
However, in May both countries agreed a significant reduction for 90 days, as part of which the United States dropped those tariffs up to 30 % and China did it to 10 %. That agreement expired on Tuesday, so both parties were looking for an extension.
Now the scenario is similar, although with other variables in the equation. Among these is a possible sanction from the United States to Beijing to import oil from Russia, as part of Washington’s pressures against Kremlin for the war in Ukraine.
Another friction point between the two countries is the so -called rare earths. According to the CNNChina agreed to increase its exports to the United States, but Trump says that the Asian country has not fulfilled its share of the treatment.
