This article is more than 1 month old US-China trade war: hopes of deal rise after partial easing of tariffs This article is more than 1 month old -- -- Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock China has raised hopes that a deal can be reached to end its trade war with the US after agreeing with Washington to roll back some tariffs. -- -- some tariffs had the potential to improve its economic forecasts for 2020. The Washington-based lender of last resort to indebted countries said its economists had already shown that the two countries’ trade war had slowed global growth significantly this year. -- -- + Chinese manufacturing slows as trade war with US dents confidence Published: 14 Nov 2019 -- Published: 14 Nov 2019 Chinese manufacturing slows as trade war with US dents confidence +