President Trump said on Tuesday that he spoke to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a move aimed at easing tensions between the two major economies as they clash over tariffs and New Delhi's purchase of Russian oil.

“He is doing a tremendous job,” Trump said. “Narendra: Thank you for your support on ending the War between Russia and Ukraine!”

Elsewhere, Trump's visit to the UK has started and with it comes a flurry of deals and announcements. The UK has shelved plans to talk with the US on removing British steel tariffs, meaning current duties will stay in place, according to a report in Bloomberg.

British drugmaker GSK (GSK) said on Wednesday they will invest $30 billion in US research and development. GSK is the largest pharmaceutical firm to scale up its US footprint as Trump threatens to impose import tariffs on the industry and seeks more domestic manufacturing.

Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is leading the US delegation during ongoing talks with Chinese trade officials in Spain, said in an interview on Tuesday that he is confident a trade deal with China is near.

With reciprocal tariffs set to take effect in November, Bessent told reporters he expects further talks to happen before then.

Bessent also reiterated that he expects a finalized TikTok deal to be announced after President Trump and Xi Jinping talk on Friday.

TikTok is set to go offline Sept. 17 unless parent company ByteDance divests itself of majority ownership of the social media app or Trump extends the deadline again.

On Monday, China accused the US of "unilateral bullying" after Washington called on G7 and NATO allies to impose tariffs on Beijing over its purchase of Russian oil.

In the background, the Supreme Court is reviewing a high-stakes legal challenge to President Trump's tariffs, setting up a resolution as early as this fall.

The high court put the case on track for oral arguments in early November. That puts the case on an unusually quick track to resolution.

The tariffs at stake are the sweeping "reciprocal," country-specific duties Trump has outlined in various steps this year (which you can see in the graphic below). Those duties range from 10% to 50%. Trump has used a 1977 law known as "IEEPA" — the International Emergency Economic Powers Act — to justify imposing the tariffs.

The appeals court allowed the tariffs to stay in place while the case moves through the legal process.

Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet

Here are the latest updates as the policy reverberates around the world.

President Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi have finally spoken in a move that some hope will help ease tensions between the two economies amid a fight over tariffs and New Delhi's Russian oil purchases.

Bloomberg News reports:

Trump said he had a “wonderful” call with the Indian leader and wished him a happy birthday, in a social media post on Tuesday.

“He is doing a tremendous job,” Trump added. “Narendra: Thank you for your support on ending the War between Russia and Ukraine!”

The call comes as the two nations resumed trade negotiations this week, discussions both sides characterized as positive as they look to reset ties following Trump’s move last month to levy 50% tariffs on exports from the South Asian nation. The president had doubled the 25% import tax rate on Indian goods — aimed at countering the country’s tariffs and other trade barriers — to also punish New Delhi for its continued Russian energy buys.

Modi in a post on X said that India supported Trump’s “initiatives towards a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict.”

Ukraine and its allies say purchases of Russian energy by India and China are undercutting global sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin that aim to pressure the Kremlin to end the war on its neighbor. Indian officials have defended the country’s energy purchases and insisted that they will continue to buy Russian oil as long as it is financially viable to do so.

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Reuters reports:

Japan's exports fell for a fourth straight month in August, government data showed on Wednesday, as elevated U.S. tariffs took a deeper toll on the country's automotive and other manufacturing sectors.

\\"Japanese automakers are still mostly absorbing the tariff costs by cutting export prices to maintain U.S. sales volumes,\\" said Saisuke Sakai, chief Japan economist at Mizuho Research.

\\"But some of them, unable to withstand rising costs, have begun increasing prices to pass them on to consumers,\\" he said.

\\"Coupled with growing uncertainties over the U.S. economy, the tariff impact on Japan's exports and output is set to intensify towards the year-end.\\"

Total exports by value dropped 0.1% year-on-year in August, the data showed, less than a median market forecast for a 1.9% decrease and following a 2.6% fall in July.

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Reuters reports:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday it will consider industry requests to impose tariffs on additional imported auto parts in the coming weeks on national security grounds.

In May, Trump imposed 25% auto tariffs on more than $460 billion worth of imports of vehicles and auto parts annually, but has since struck deals to reduce those tariffs on some countries. The department said Monday domestic producers of automobiles or automobile parts, or any industry association can ask for tariffs on additional parts to be imposed that have national security impacts.

\\"The automotive industry is in a state of rapid development for various technologies, including in the areas of alternative propulsion systems, autonomous driving capabilities, and other advanced technologies,\\" the department said, adding the industry needs \\"the opportunity to identify new and emerging automotive products with importance for defense applications.\\"

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US treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that he is confident a trade deal with China is near.

With reciprocal tariffs set to take effect in November, Bessent said during an interview with CNBC that he expects further talks to happen before then.

“We’ll be seeing each other again,” he said during a wide-ranging exchange on “Squawk Box. “Each one of those talks has become more and more productive. I think the Chinese now sense that a trade deal is possible.”

Reuters reports:

Wall Street is bracing for another bumpy ride ahead of a forthcoming Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of tariffs that could throw Corporate America into turmoil and raise questions over the country's fiscal health.

The plunge in asset prices in early April in the wake of U.S. President Trump's Liberation Day tariff announcements offers Wall Street a taste of what some believe may be in store if courts opt to overturn a tariff regime to which market participants have become accustomed.

Since then, the administration has announced an array of trade deals and companies have found ways to absorb some of the costs. Markets in turn have recovered and moved on to set fresh highs.

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The European Union said on Tuesday it will delay presenting its new Russia sanctions after President Trump pushed for tougher European measures before the US proceeds with its own.

Bloomberg News reports:

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, was due to present the proposal, it’s 19th, on Wednesday. On Friday, the US pressured its allies in the Group of Seven to impose tariffs as high as 100% on China and India for their purchases of Russian oil, as well as other measures, to push President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table with Ukraine.

G-7 officials are currently working on a new sanctions package and are aiming to finalize a text in the next two weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The EU is weighing sanctioning companies in India and China that are enabling Russia’s oil trade, Bloomberg reported earlier.

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The Financial Times reports:

South Korea and the US are struggling to finalise the terms of their trade deal, as Seoul resists pressure from Washington to allow Donald Trump to decide where billions of dollars of its capital should be invested in the US.

Seoul’s trade minister Yeo Han-koo is in Washington for talks with US trade representative Jamieson Greer, more than two months after the two sides announced South Korea would make $350bn in American investments in exchange for the US reducing its threatened tariffs from 25 to 15 per cent.

“The devil is in the details. We are in tense negotiations over the details,” Yeo said upon arriving in Washington on Monday.

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Reuters reports:

Swatch (UHR.SW) will hike its prices in the United States by between 5% and 15% after the 39% tariff President Donald Trump imposed on Switzerland last month, the Swiss watchmaker's Chief Executive Nick Hayek said in a newspaper interview.

Hayek told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper at the weekend that the U.S. tariffs could be mitigated through transfer prices, margins and the cost of the company's products.

\\"Depending on the brand, we will increase prices in the range of 5 to 15 percent. But since we also have a strong presence in Canada and Mexico, there will be opportunities there too for American consumers,\\" Hayek said.

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China ruled on Monday that Nvidia (NVDA) violated anti-monopoly laws with a high-profile deal in 2020, increasing the pressure on Washington during sensitive trade negotiations continue in Madrid.

Nvidia's stock fell almost 3% before the bell.

Bloomberg News reports:

The US chipmaker was found in violation of antitrust regulations after the acquisition of networking gear maker Mellanox Technologies Ltd., the State Administration for Market Regulation said after concluding a preliminary investigation. Nvidia’s shares fell about 2% in pre-market trading, while US stock index futures pared gains.

The surprise announcement emerged with US and Chinese officials heading into a second day of wide-ranging negotiations in Madrid over tariffs, which could shape the relationship between the world’s two largest economies. Nvidia has this year found itself at the center of those discussions, because of its central role in driving future technologies including artificial intelligence.

In December, Beijing opened a probe into Nvidia’s acquisition of Mellanox, taking aim at the world’s most valuable company. Beijing gave approval for the $7 billion acquisition deal four years ago, on condition Nvidia not discriminate against Chinese companies.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed on Monday that they are \\"very close\\" to resolving the TikTok issue with China, as trade discussions resumed in Madrid.

Bloomberg News reports:

The American official touted progress in the negotiation before he and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer began a second day of dialog with their Chinese counterparts in the Spanish capital.

“I think on the TikTok deal itself, we are very close or we’ve resolved the issue. There are a range of other asks that are unresolved,” Bessent said.

He stated that the Chinese side, led by Vice Premier He Lifeng, made an “aggressive ask” in talks, without saying what that was about.

Greer said the two sides have had general discussions about trade imbalances, although they have not “found a path forward on that.”

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Reuters reports:

China on Monday said it firmly opposed the United States calling on the G7 and NATO countries to impose secondary tariffs over purchases of Russian oil, pledging to take measures to safeguard its rights and interests.

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US and Chinese officials met on Sunday to discuss trade, the economy and TikTok in high-level talks in Madrid, a senior Treasury official said, as diplomacy between the two countries steps up.

Bloomberg News reports:

A US delegation helmed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and a Chinese group led by Vice Premier He Lifeng met for almost six hours on Sunday, the official said.

“We’ll start again in the morning,” Bessent said late Sunday as he waved and climbed into an SUV after the meeting.

Included in the agenda are national security issues and the status of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, which faces a deadline this week to reach a deal to continue operations in the US. Officials were also expected to lay the groundwork for a potential meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping as soon as October, when they’re scheduled to attend a summit in South Korea.

Trump told reporters later on Sunday that the talks are “going fine,” but said that TikTok’s fate will be determined by Beijing’s actions.

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Bloomberg reports:

President Donald Trump’s most concrete step to rein in unprecedented US budget deficits — sweeping tariff hikes — faces the danger of a legal reversal that would put the nation’s finances on an even shakier footing.

Trump and top aides including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have argued that federal borrowing needs will shrink in coming years as Republican tax cuts, reduced regulation and big-ticket investment pledges from companies and foreign nations stoke economic growth and goose federal revenues. Many economists question that outlook, but few disagree that tariff hikes are indeed generating a new stream of cash for the Treasury.

Customs duties — paid overwhelmingly by American importers — have totaled $165 billion for the 2025 fiscal year with one month left to go, Treasury Department figures showed Thursday. That’s up some $95 billion on the year before.

Most of the jump is thanks to tariffs Trump imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) Bloomberg Economics analysis shows. But an Aug. 29 federal appeals court ruling has called the legality of that maneuver into question. Unless the Supreme Court, which has agreed to review the case, decides in the president’s favor, Bessent has warned the government could be liable to refund large sums of money.

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President Trump's tolerance with Russian President Putin is wearing thin. In a Fox News interview on Friday, Trump made the comment that his patience with Putin was “running out fast” and threatened Moscow with new economic sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

Bloomberg News reports:

“It’ll be hitting very hard on with sanctions to banks and having to do with oil and tariffs also,” Trump said Friday in an interview on Fox News.

Still, the president insisted that he had already “done a lot” to punish Russia, noting expanded tariffs he placed on India for purchasing Russian energy and argued that “this is a Europe problem, much more than our problem.”

Russia on Friday said negotiations with Ukraine were on “pause” despite Trump’s push following a meeting with Putin last month for direct talks between the Russian leader and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

“Communication channels exist, they are established, our negotiators have the opportunity to communicate through these channels, but for now, perhaps, we can talk about a pause,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday, without elaborating.

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Swiss watchmaker Swatch (UHR.SW, UHRZ.XC) has started selling a special edition watch with the numbers 3 and 9 reversed on its dial, a tongue-in-cheek reference to President Trump's 39% tariffs imposed on US imports from Switzerland last month.

Reuters reports:

The tariffs - among the highest set by Trump worldwide - were met with shock and dismay in Switzerland, a leading producer of high-end watches and other luxury goods.

Costing 139 Swiss francs ($175), the watch named \\"WHAT IF...TARIFFS?\\" went on sale on Wednesday and is only available in Switzerland, a company spokesperson said on Friday.

\\"Because as soon as the U.S. changes its tariffs for Switzerland, we will immediately stop selling this watch,\\" the spokesperson said, declining to say how many watches had so far been sold but calling the model \\"a huge success.\\"

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Reuters reports:

The United States and Japan reaffirmed their commitment to \\"market determined\\" exchange rates, while agreeing that foreign exchange interventions should be reserved for combating excess volatility, according to a joint statement released on Friday.

The latest agreement also notably made no new demands by the Trump administration on Tokyo around foreign exchange or other matters, a point analysts say will give Japan some relief as it navigates tricky bilateral ties with Washington.

The U.S. Treasury Department and the Japanese Finance Ministry \\"reaffirmed that exchange rates should be market determined and that excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability,\\" the statement said.

They chose this timing as the two countries this month published a separate joint statement clarifying details of their tariff deal, Kato said.

The tariff negotiations with the United States have been led by Economy Minister Ryosei Akazawa, while the two countries had agreed that any discussions on currency rates have to be held between Kato and Bessent.

Under the agreement, Washington will reduce tariffs to 15% on most Japanese imports in exchange for Japan's $550 billion U.S.-bound investment package, which includes government-backed loans and guarantees.

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China has sent a warning to Mexico telling them to \\"think twice\\" before levying tariffs, a sign that could signal Beijing's willingness to retaliate over a move it sees as giving in to demands from President Trump.

Bloomberg News reports:

“Any unilateral tariff increase by Mexico, even within the framework of WTO rules, would be seen as appeasement and compromise toward unilateral bullying,” a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Thursday. “We urge the Mexican side to exercise extreme caution and consider carefully before taking any actions.”

Mexico has come under growing pressure from Donald Trump’s protectionist stance on trade, particularly his push for steep tariffs on Chinese goods. The Latin American country announced plans Thursday to impose duties of as much as 50% on cars and other products made by China and several Asian exporters.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who’s preparing for talks over North America’s free-trade deal, later insisted she doesn’t seek conflict with China but instead wants to protect domestic industry.

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The FT reports:

The US will pressure G7 countries to hit India and China with sharply higher tariffs for buying Russian oil in an attempt to force Moscow into peace talks with Ukraine, according to four people briefed on the plans.

In a video call on Friday, finance ministers from the Group of Seven leading economies will discuss a US proposal for a round of new measures as Donald Trump steps up efforts to broker a peace deal in Ukraine.

The US president this week urged the EU to impose up to 100 per cent tariffs on China and India but is now expanding the push to include G7 allies.

“Chinese and Indian purchases of Russian oil are funding Putin’s war machine and prolonging the senseless killing of the Ukrainian people,” said a US Treasury department spokesperson.

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Yahoo Finance's Ben Werschkul reports:

President Trump's tariffs continued to add billions to US coffers as the summer ended with customs duties bringing in about $29.5 billion in August.

The final data for the month — released Thursday afternoon in the latest monthly statement from the US Treasury Department — confirmed another record after a July total of $27.7 billion.

The latest data also represents the first full month of receipts since new \\"reciprocal\\" tariffs went into effect on Aug.7. That move saw Trump levy duties of between 10% and 50% on importers bringing in a variety of goods from around the globe.

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From Reuters:

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday he believes the United States will sort out a trade deal with India as soon as that country stops buying Russian oil.

Asked on CNBC what trade issue he was most focused on, Lutnick mentioned India and said: \\"Well, we're going to sort out India,\\" once it stops buying Russian oil.

Lutnick also said \\"we have a big deal coming with Taiwan\\" and he said a trade agreement would probably get done with Switzerland.

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