Global stock markets are nervously awaiting the details of US president Donald Trump's tariff plans as “Liberation Day” looms.Asian and European stocks stuttered on Wednesday morning amid fears from investors and world leaders that Trump’s plans could intensify a global trade war.

Five years after Xi Jinping struck his first trade deal with Donald Trump, US officials are set to deliver their view of Beijing’s compliance with that bargain, in a high-stakes week likely to fan tensions.

Three Democratic senators on Monday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to "dramatically revise" the United States' trade relationship with China along with 14 free trade agreements, providing a boost to his push to revamp U.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is imposing "secondary tariffs" on countries that import oil from Venezuela, with China likely the main target. Nations that buy Venezuelan oil would face 25% tariffs on all trade with the U.

Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc and executives from companies including Vietnam Airlines JSC and Vietjet Aviation JSC will travel to the United States this weekend as U.S. tariffs loom, Bloomberg News reported.

As countries around the world brace for the implementation of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade tariffs and with more targeted levies likely impending, the U.K. still hopes it can escape the worse of the import duties.

U.S. President Donald Trump was poised to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of rules-based trade, threatening cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides.