French finance minister Eric Lombard said on Thursday that talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng did not yield a solution to a trade dispute with China involving Cognac, though he added that the door remained open for further discussions.

The White House has said its agreements with the U.K. and China are starting points, but so far the Trump administration has given up more than it has gained.

High-level talks between the United States and China have begun in Geneva, Switzerland, Chinese state media reported on Saturday, in a possible thaw in the trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s massive tariffs.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said India US trade talks are ongoing and complex, adding that any assumptions such as zero tariffs are premature until a mutually beneficial deal is reached.

The world’s two biggest economies agreed to a temporary rollback of most of their recent levies after negotiating in Switzerland over the weekend.

By Leika Kihara and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday signalled that increasing corn imports from the U.S. would be among options in trade negotiations with Washington,

With Wall Street embracing another rally, some financial markets are trading like Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” shock never happened.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week said Switzerland and Britain had jumped to the front of the queue for a trade deal with the United States, he warned the European Union it was moving "much slower".