President Trump signed an executive order on Monday extending a tariff truce with China by another 90 days – just hours before levies on Chinese goods were due to snap back to triple-digit rates.
“I have just signed an Executive Order that will extend the Tariff Suspension on China for another 90 days. All other elements of the Agreement will remain the same,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The order prevents tariffs on imports from China – currently subject to a 30% duty – from sky-rocketing to 145%.
Donald Trump signed an executive order extending a tariff truce with China Monday. REUTERSSimilarly, China’s 10% tariff on US goods – which was set to climb to 125% just after midnight Tuesday – will remain in place.
Washington and Beijing struck a deal in May to pause their raging trade war for 90 days, as negotiations on a long term trading agreement continued.
Earlier Monday, Trump was noncommittal when asked if he would extend the tariff truce, but noted that negotiations were going “quite nicely.”
“We’ll see what happens,” the president told reporters. “They’ve been dealing quite nicely. The relationship is very good with President Xi [Jinping] and myself.”
A container ship at a port in Lianyungang, China’s eastern Jiangsu province on August 7, 2025. AFP via Getty ImagesThe initial truce was agreed to after talks in Geneva, Switzerland in May – led on the US side by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Both sides met again in Stockholm, Sweden in late July, but no agreement on a trade deal, nor extending the pause, was reached.
Trump cut preliminary trade deals with several nations, including the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and the European Union, ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline he had set for his so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs to go into effect.
The president said his relationship is “very good with President Xi (Jinping).” Getty ImagesThis weekend, Trump demanded that China quadruple its soybean purchases as a condition for a trade deal with Beijing.
The Trump administration has also been urging China to stop buying Russian oil, with the president threatening to impose secondary tariffs on Beijing if it continues doing so.
Bessent has said the Trump administration has the makings of a deal with China in place, and that he is “optimistic” about the path forward.
Last month, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick noted that negotiations over the social media app TikTok are “separate but adjacent” to a potential China deal.
TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, has a Sept. 17 deadline to divest the platform’s American assets or face a US ban.
