Trade ties appeared to have stabilised in June after U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed to revive a fragile truce reached during talks in Geneva in May. The agreement had been strained before the talks by a series of export controls that disrupted supply chains for key industries on both sides of the Pacific.

The U.S. copper industry is in crisis — and Washington is finally taking notice. With President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of 50% tariffs on copper imports under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act,

India and China are responding in markedly different ways to the sweeping tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, which are reshaping global trade dynamics and exposing vulnerabilities in traditional supply chains.