U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade deal with Japan has sparked fresh optimism that the global economy will manage to avoid getting hit with extremely elevated tariffs, even as many U.S. trading partners still don’t have agreements.

President Donald Trump said Friday that talks with China were progressing, while the odds of securing a trade agreement with the European Union remain evenly split. The U.S. and China have the “confines of a deal,

The US-China deal under negotiation is likely to bear similarities to the phase one trade agreement from Donald Trump's first term, according to a former senior official in that administration - offering clues to what the highly anticipated pact may look like just weeks before a trade truce between the two rival economies is set to expire.