China’s top trade official said the two sides had “constructive” and “candid” discussions and agreed to keep the tariffs at current levels — the United States taxing Chinese goods at 30 percent and China collecting 10 percent on US products.

Senior U.S. and Chinese negotiators meet in Stockholm on Monday to tackle longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world's top two economies, aiming to extend a truce keeping sharply higher tariffs at bay.

China and the U.S. have agreed to continue their tariff pauses on each other, China's top trade official said Tuesday in Stockholm, following a two-day meeting with U.S. officials. Speaking with the press,