Overview
- After a roughly 90–100 minute meeting in Busan on Oct. 30, the United States and China endorsed a one-year suspension of selected measures, including mutual actions targeting shipbuilding and some U.S. export restrictions.
- China’s commerce ministry said Washington will lift a 10% fentanyl-related tariff and keep an additional 24% surcharge on hold, while Beijing will suspend certain controls it announced this month for one year.
- Trump said overall tariffs on Chinese goods would fall by about 10 percentage points to roughly 47%, a figure reported alongside plans for China to take stronger steps on fentanyl precursors.
- Press reports and officials indicated Beijing will relax rare-earth export curbs for a year and resume larger purchases of U.S. soybeans, with initial orders reported and a return toward prior buying levels discussed.
- Both sides left Taiwan off their public readouts, with Trump saying the topic did not come up and Taiwan’s government calling the omission a stabilizing signal, as analysts warned the détente remains fragile and largely unwritten.