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Although highly uncertain, any truce between the US and China at the G20 meeting could delay new tariffs.A new low point in trade tensions between the US and China was reached in September 2018 when the US placed an additional 10% duty on roughly USD200 billion of Chinese imports. However, since then, hints at a potential ‘détente’ have focused on the G20 summit in Buenos Aires at the end of November, with hopes that progress there could delay the setting of tariffs on all Chinese imports...

China’s latest retaliatory measures seem fairly restrained, but the tension between the two nations could drag on for quite some time.On 3 August, the Chinese government announced a list of additional tariffs on USD 60 billion worth of US imports in retaliation to the US’s proposed tariffs on USD 200 billion of Chinese goods. When these tariffs are implemented will depend on when the US activates its tariffs. The announcement came shortly after President Trump stated that he was considering...