Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. and China announced they'd reached a deal to temporarily cut tariffs in a move that offered a reprieve to global economies.

U.S. and China reach deal to temporarily slash tariffs
‘Very positive news’ for countries’, global economies says analyst

WTO chiefs past and present demand rapid reform to keep global free trade alive
Reading Time: 2 minutes A former World Trade Organization boss has said the future terms of global trade, rocked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping protectionist tariffs, could be decided outside the 30-year-old international watchdog unless it reforms itself fast.