At least six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a market in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Monday, Thai police said in a statement.
The fatalities include the gunman who took his own life, Charin Gopatta, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told Reuters.
“Police are investigating the identity of the person and the motive for the incident,” Thai police said in a statement. The five people killed by the gunman were security guards at the market, it said.
No tourists were killed or injured in the shooting incident, said Sanong Saengmani, a police official in Bangkok’s Bang Sue district, where the market that mainly sells agricultural produce is located.
Tourism is a key economic driver in Thailand, Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, where growth has been sluggish and such incidents can potentially dampen sentiment.
In video footage shared by police, a suspect in a white hat and a backpack slung on his chest is seen walking through a parking lot at the market.
Gun violence and gun ownership are not uncommon in Thailand. In October 2023, a 14-year-old suspect used a modified handgun to kill two people and injure five others at a luxury mall in central Bangkok.
In 2022, a former police officer killed 36 people, including 22 children, in a gun-and-knife attack at a nursery in eastern Thailand.
Police say they are working to identify deceased suspect.
Five people have been killed and one person wounded in a shooting in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, police say.
The shooting occurred at Or Tor Kor Market in the Bang Sue district of northern Bangkok at 12:31pm (05:31 GMT) on Monday, the Royal Thai Police said.
All five of the deceased victims were security guards at the market, and the suspected perpetrator took his own life, according to police.
“Police are investigating the motive. So far, it’s a mass shooting,” Worapat Sukthai, deputy police chief in the Bang Sue district, was quoted as telling the AFP news agency.
The police are working to identify the suspect and investigating “any possible link” to the current border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, the official said.
The shooter was seen in surveillance footage wearing a black T-shirt, a cap, camouflage shorts and a backpack hung over his chest, the Thai Public Broadcasting Service reported.
Gun violence is relatively common in Thailand compared to much of the rest of Southeast Asia.
In 2020, a junior army officer killed 29 people and wounded 58 in a shooting rampage in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Trump says he knows ‘nothing’ about small boats – but claims most people arriving on them probably ‘bad people’
Christopher Hope, political editor of GB News, asked earlier if Donald Trump had any advice for the UK on the small boats crisis. (See 12.49pm.)
Trump did not seem to recognise the term, and Keir Starmer said this was a reference to boats coming across the channel. He said the UK government was taking “a lot of action” to stop people coming in the first place.
Then Trump added:
Immigration is a big factor.
And I think, frankly, if they’re coming from other countries and you don’t know who they are – are they coming from prisons? We have them where they came in from prisons. We’re moving them all out.
Last month we had zero people come into the country, zero, other than coming through legal means.
If you’re stopping immigration and stopping the wrong people, my hats are off to you. You’re doing, not a good thing, you’re doing a fantastic thing.
So I know nothing about the boats.
But if the boats are loaded up with bad people – and they usually are, because other countries don’t send their best, they send people that they don’t want, they’re not stupid people, they send the people that they don’t want.
And I’ve heard that you’ve taken a much stronger stance on this.
Starmer agreed with this, saying the government had done “a lot of work” to stop people coming. He said 35,000 people have been returned over the past year.
Here are the US government figures for illegal crossings into the country in June. They are not zero, but they are at a record low.
Trump also does not seem to understand why people end up trying to enter the UK illegally to seek asylum. It is not because they are “bad people” sent by countries trying to get rid of them; it is generally the opposite – ordinary people trying to get away from terrible regimes.
Donald Trump with Keir Starmer and Starmer’s wife, Victoria. Photograph: Chris Furlong/PA
Key events
Trump claims he hasn’t been ‘overly interested’ about controversy about his links to sex offender Jeffery Epstein
Asked about reports about his name being in the Epstein files, Trump claims that has not been that interested in this story. He says:
I haven’t been overly interested.
You know, it’s a hoax that’s been built up way beyond proportion. I can say this. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth … The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files.
He says his enemies could have put material in the files that was fake.
And if the Democrats had had material to use against him that was damaging, they would have used it before the presidential election, he says.
Referring to the Wall Street Journal report saying he drew a picture of a nude woman as part of a suggestive birthday day message for Jeffrey Epstein when the two men were great friends, he says:
I don’t do drawings. I’m not a drawing person. I don’t do drawings. Sometimes you would say, would you draw a building? And I’ll draw four lines and a little roof, you know, for a charity stuff. But I’m not a drawing person. I don’t do drawings of women that I can tell you.
He also claims his poll ratings have increased by 4.5 points since this “ridiculous Epstein stuff” has been in the news.
The claim that Trump has not been interested in the Epstein story is preposterous, as David Smith explained in this Guardian article last week.
And last week Politico ran a report saying the White House was “paralysed” by indecision over how to respond to the story.
Donald Trump speaking to the press during a meeting with Keir Starmer. Photograph: Chris Furlong/PA
Trump claims nobody has suggested to him giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon
Q: Would you consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon?
Trump says:
Nobody’s approached me with it. Nobody’s asked me about it. It’s in the news about that, that aspect of it, but right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.
Trump says he likes both Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage.
I happen to like both men. I like this man a lot, and I like Nigel.
And, you know, I don’t know the politics over here. I don’t know where they stand. I would say one is slightly liberal – not that liberal, slightly – and the other one is slightly conservative. But they’re both good men.
Trump says he knows that Starmer wants “to cut taxes as much as he can”. He says in politics the party that offers to cut taxes the most wins.
Trump suggests he could be invited to address parliament on further trip, after state visit
Trump offers to deliver a speech in parliament.
His state visit has been timed to take place in September while parliament is in recess, which is widely seen as a convenient way of avoiding the dilemma over whether or not to invite him to address MPs and peers. Not inviting him would look like a snub, but inviting him would be opposed by some parliamentarians.
Trump suggests he can come and address parliament on another visit.
As far as parliament, if [Starmer] wants me to speak in parliament, I’ll do it, OK.
But it doesn’t have to be [during the state visit]. It could be some other time. Maybe we should save it for another time. Well, we’ll let the one visit speak for itself, but anytime, if I could be helpful, I would certainly do it.
Starmer describes London mayor Sadiq Khan as a ‘friend’, after Trump calls him ‘nasty person’
Trump says he will be coming to London during the state visit. But he goes on to attack Sadiq Khan. He says:
I’m not a fan of your mayor. I think he’s done a terrible job.
Trump also describes him as a “nasty person”.
To his credit, Starmer intervenes to say that Khan is “a friend of mine”.
Starmer says Turnberry ‘magnificent’, but it is not for UK government to decide if it hosts the Open again
Asked about the prospects of the Open being held again at Turnberry (which is said to be one of Trump’s big demands from the UK at the moment), Starmer says this is the first time he has visited and that it is “absolutely magnificent”. But he says that is a decision for the golfing authorties, not for him.
Trump talks about his dispute with Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, recalling what he saw when he visited its HQ last week (because the White House has suggested alleged over-spending on a renovation project could justify Powell’s removal). He claims that he will miss Powell “greatly” when he has gone.
That is a joke about Trump wanting Powell gone, because he is refusing to cut interest rates.
Q: What do you think of John Swinney proposing a second independence referendum? [See 11.28am.]
Trump starts talking about Brexit, suggesting he may have got his referenda muddled up.
But, on referenda, he suggests that there is a case for a country having to wait before having a second vote.
He says he does not want to get too political.
He says he does not know John Swinney, but “I’ve heard great things about him”.
Starmer says he can answer directly.
I think that the first minister should probably focus more on his delivery in Scotland than on his constitutional issues, and we might have a better health service in Scotland.
He says the four nations of the UK are better off united.
Asked if he thought President Putin had lied to him about his commitment to a ceasefire in Ukraine, Trump said there were times when they had had a good talk, and he thought Putin might agree to a ceasefire, but nothing had happened. He said this had happened too often, and he did not like it.
Trump is now boasting about his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” – which will slash taxes for the wealthy, increase the US national debt and lead to millions of people losing access to Medicaid, government-funded health insurance.
He says he is convinced tax cuts are good for the country.
And he says that he thinks Keir Starmer will end up as a “tax cutter”.
Starmer says Online Safety Act will not censor Trump’s Truth Social social media company
Q: Are you worried the Online Safety Act is going to censore Truth Social, your social media site?
Trump jokes that he does not think that is likely.
Starmer says the act is not about censoring sites. He says the UK is committed to free speech. But children should be protected from things like suicide sites.
Trump says Congress passed similar legislation, supported by his wife. He goes on:
I cannot imainge him censoring Truth Social … I only say good things about him and his country.
Starmer says there is “revulsion” in the UK at what people are saying from Gaza, where people are starving.
He says aid needs to get in “at speed and volume”.
And he repeats the point he made earlier, thanking Trump for his efforts pushing for a ceasefire. (See 1.26pm.)
Trump declines to commit to exempting Scotch whisky from US tariffs
Q: You say you love Scotland. Will you exempt Scotch whisky from tariffs?
Trump replies:
I have great love for Scotland. You know, my mother loved Scotland, and she loved the Queen … Whenever the Queen was on television, she wanted to watch.
But, asked again if this would mean a special deal for Scotch whisky, Trump declines to make that offer. He says he thinks Scotland will benefit generally from the UK deal.
Trump says he wants Putin to agree ceasefire in Ukraine within 15 days
Q: What is your deadline for President Putin to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine? You originally said 50 days.
Trump says it will be about 10 or 12 days from today. There is no point waiting. He says he will be generous – 15 days.
The US-EU trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by France’s prime minister and business leaders across Germany.
The deal, which will impose 15% tariffs on almost all European exports to the US including cars, ends the threat of a punitive 30% import duties being imposed on Trump’s 1 August deadline for a deal, but it is a world apart from the zero-zero import and export tariff the EU offered initially.
It also means European exporters to the US will face more then triple the average 4.8% tariff now in force, with negotiations to continue on steel, which is still facing a 50% tariff, aviation, and a question mark over future barriers to pharmaceutical exports.
France’s prime minister, François Bayrou, said Europe had submitted to the US, on a “dark day” for the union. “It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, gathered to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” Bayrou posted on X.
Accord Van der Leyen-Trump : c’est un jour sombre que celui où une alliance de peuples libres, rassemblés pour affirmer leurs valeurs et défendre leurs intérêts, se résout à la soumission.
The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, rapidly hailed the deal, saying it avoided “needless escalation in transatlantic trade relations” and averted a potentially damaging trade war.
German exporters were less enthusiastic. The powerful BDI federation of industrial groups said the accord would have “considerable negative repercussions”, while the country’s VCI chemical trade association said the accord left rates “too high”.
It is also clear that the US tariff of 15% on automotive products will place a burden on German automotive companies in the midst of their transformation, hitting sales and profits.
The president of the car industry federation VDA, Hildegard Müller, said it was “fundamentally positive” that a framework deal was agreed but warned of huge costs to come.
European stock markets hit a four-month high at the start of trading on Monday, amid relief that a deal had been reached. Germany’s Dax jumped by 0.86%, and France’s Cac 40 index rose by 1.1%.
Ireland, one of the EU’s top exporters to the US, said on Sunday it welcomed the deal for bringing “a measure of much-needed certainty”, but that it “regrets” the baseline tariff, in a statement by its deputy prime minister, Simon Harris.
France’s minister for Europe, Benjamin Haddad, said on Monday that the agreement would provide “temporary stability … but it is unbalanced”.
The German bank Berenberg said the deal brought to an end the “crippling uncertainty” but said it was a victory for Trump.
“It is great to have a deal. In two major respects, however, the outcome remains much worse than the situation before Trump started his new round of trade wars early this year,” said Holger Schmieding, Berenberg’s chief economist.
“The extra US tariffs will hurt both the US and the EU. For Europe, the damage is mostly frontloaded,” Schmieding said in a note to clients on Monday morning.
“The deal is asymmetric. The US gets away with a substantial increase in its tariffs on imports from the EU and has secured further EU concessions to boot. In his apparent zero-sum mentality, Trump can claim that as a ‘win’ for him,” Schmieding added.
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The Italian bank UniCredit also said Trump had got the better out of the EU. “Is this a good deal for the EU? Probably not. The outcome is heavily asymmetrical, and it leaves US tariffs on imported EU goods at much higher levels than EU tariffs on imports from the US,” UniCredit said in a note to clients.
“Fifteen per cent is not to be underestimated, but it is the best we could get,” the European Commision president, Ursula von der Leyen, acknowledged.
Initially the EU had tried to hardball the US by threatening but pausing €21bn (£18bn) worth of retaliatory measures in April, and adding another list of €73bn-worth of US imports that would be taxed earlier this month.
But it pivoted to a quick UK-style deal after the Nato summit in June, swapping a comprehensive trade deal for security and defence promises from Trump.
By contrast, China, which threatened the US with a cascade of punitive tariffs, is still negotiating with Trump, who over the weekend froze technology transfer restrictions to create space for a deal with Beijing.
Berenberg said the deal would affect the German economy, but the decline in growth would be offset by the Bundestag’s recent growth stimulus package, it added.
The EU had pushed for a compromise on steel that could allow a certain quota into the US before tariffs would apply. Trump appeared to rule that out, saying steel was “staying the way it is”, but von der Leyen insisted later that “tariffs will be cut and a quota system will be put in place” for steel.
He also ruled out a carve-out for pharmaceuticals but later von der Leyen said the 15% tariff would apply to EU medicine exports and that any other tariffs were up to the US president.
The EU is now subject to a 25% levy on cars, 50% on steel and aluminium, and an across-the-board tariff of 10%, which Washington had threatened to increase to 30% in a no-deal scenario.
The bloc had been pushing hard for tariff carve-outs for critical industries from aircraft to spirits, and its car industry, crucial for France and Germany, is already reeling from the levies imposed so far.
Israel’s new 10-hour military pause in parts of Gaza begins but UN warns measures are not enough to ‘stave off famine’
We are continuing our live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. Stick with us throughout the day as we provide the latest updates.
Responding to a global outcry provoked by reports and images of widespread starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the Israeli military said yesterday that it had began a “tactical pause” in the densely populated areas of Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi to “increase the scale of humanitarian aid” into the strip.
It said the pause would be repeated every day from 10am to 8pm local time until further notice. Today is due to bring the second of these pauses.
Soon after the first humanitarian pause began yesterday, Israel carried out an airstrike on a building in Gaza City, killing a woman and her four children.
Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinian people over the northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana)/AP
Israel allowed a limited amount of airdrops into Gaza to resume over the weekend but charities have warned the amount is totally inadequate for the population’s needs. Israel, Jordan and the UAE all parachuted aid into the territory that has been devasted by relentless Israeli bombardments.
Israel has said humanitarian corridors would be established to facilitate the entry of UN aid trucks into Gaza, though the number of trucks that will be allowed in was not specified.
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher welcomed Israel’s pledge to start daily humanitarian pauses, but said much more has to be done to alleviate the health crisis engulfing the territory.
In a statement published yesterday, he said:
We welcome Israel’s decision to support a one-week scale-up of aid, including lifting customs barriers on food, medicine and fuel from Egypt and the reported designation of secure routes for UN humanitarian convoys.
Some movement restrictions appear to have been eased today, with initial reports indicating that over 100 truckloads were collected.
This is progress, but vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis.
Obama slams Gaza starvation, demands global action – Daily Times
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A man makes his way through a flooded road after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China August 3, 2023. — Reuters
A landslide triggered by unusually heavy rain killed four people and left eight others missing in northern China’s Hebei province, state media said on Monday, as downpours force thousands to evacuate.
The landslide in a village near Chengde City was “due to heavy rainfall”, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The national emergency management department said it dispatched a team to inspect the “severe” flooding in Hebei, which encircles the capital Beijing.
Swathes of northern China have been inundated in recent days, with record rain in Hebei killing two people on Saturday, state media said.
In Fuping County, more than 4,600 people were evacuated over the weekend, it said.
And in neighbouring Shanxi province, one person was rescued and 13 were missing after a bus accident, CCTV reported.
Footage from the broadcaster showed roads in Shanxi and a crop field submerged in rushing water on Sunday.
In Beijing, more than 3,000 people in suburban Miyun district were evacuated due to torrential rains.
The area’s reservoir “recorded its largest inflow flood” since it was built more than six decades ago, state media reported.
On Monday in Mujiayu, a town just south of the reservoir, AFP journalists saw power lines swept away by muddy currents while military vehicles and ambulances ploughed through flooded roads.
A river had burst its banks, sweeping away trees, while fields of crops were inundated with flood water.
Authorities in the capital issued the country´s second-highest warning for rainstorms and the highest for floods, state news agency Xinhua said.
The downpours are expected to last until Tuesday morning.
Natural disasters are common across China, particularly in the summer when some regions experience heavy rain while others bake in searing heatwaves.
China is the world´s biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say drive climate change and contribute to making extreme weather more frequent and intense.
But it is also a global renewable energy powerhouse that aims to make its massive economy carbon-neutral by 2060.
Flash floods in eastern China´s Shandong province killed two people and left 10 missing this month.
A landslide on a highway in Sichuan province this month also killed five people after it swept several cars down a mountainside.
SURIN, Thailand — Thai and Cambodian leaders are meeting in Malaysia in an urgent effort to resolve deadly border clashes that entered a fifth day despite mounting international calls for peace.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Thai Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai are scheduled to hold talks Monday afternoon at the official residence of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim who is hosting the negotiations as chair of the regional bloc, Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The fighting flared last Thursday after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers. Both sides blamed each other for starting the clashes, that have killed at least 35 people and displaced more than 260,000 people on both sides. Both countries recalled their ambassadors and Thailand shut all border crossings with Cambodia, with an exception for migrant Cambodian workers returning home.
Troops from both sides reported ongoing fighting Monday along border areas. Gunfire could be heard as dawn broke in Samrong in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province, Associated Press reporters covering the conflict said.
Anwar said late Sunday that both sides would present their conditions for peace but “what is important is immediate ceasefire.”
“I hope this can work,” Anwar was quoted as saying by Malaysian national news agency Bernama. “Although it’s not as bad as many other countries, we have to put a stop (to the violence).”
The meeting followed direct pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, who has warned that the United States may not proceed with trade deals with either country if hostilities continue.
Before departing for Kuala Lumpur, Phumtham told reporters in Bangkok that the U.S. and China representatives will also attend as observers. He said the key focus would be on an immediate ceasefire, but noted trust could be an issue as Cambodia has not stopped its strikes.
“We have informed that we don’t have trust in Cambodia. All they have done reflect that they are not sincere in solving this problem. So they have to show the detail how they will do to prove their sincerity,” he said.
The violence marks a rare instance of open military confrontation between ASEAN member states, a 10-nation regional bloc that has prided itself on non-aggression, peaceful dialogue and economic cooperation.
In a statement Monday, ASEAN foreign ministers reiterated concern over the rising death toll, destruction of public properties and displacement of a large number of people along the disputed border areas. They urged the two countries to resolve their disputes through negotiations and expressed support for efforts to find a middle ground during Monday’s talks.
The conflict also drew the attention of Pope Leo XIV. At the Vatican on Sunday, the pontiff said he was praying for all those affected by war in the world, including “for those affected by the clashes on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, especially the children and displaced families.”
At an evacuation shelter in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province far away from the border, Ron Mao, 56, prays for a ceasefire deal during the leaders’ meeting Monday. She and her family fled their home a kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the front line when fighting broke out Thursday. They took refuge in a shelter but moved again to another camp further away after hearing artillery shelling.
“I don’t want to see this war happen. It’s very difficult and I don’t want to run around like this,” she said, “When I heard our Prime Minister go to negotiate for peace, I would be very happy if they reached the deal as soon as possible, so that I and my children can return home as soon as possible.”
The 800-kilometer (500-mile) frontier between Thailand and Cambodia has been disputed for decades, but past confrontations have been limited and brief. The latest tensions erupted in May when a Cambodian soldier was killed in a confrontation that created a diplomatic rift and roiled Thailand’s domestic politics.
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Ng reported from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Sopheng Cheang from Samrong, Cambodia. Associated Press writers Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul and Grant Peck in Bangkok contributed to this report.
UNITED NATIONS, July 28 (Xinhua) — “As the world is witnessing, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is devastating,” UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, said on Sunday.
“One in three people in Gaza hasn’t eaten for days. People are being shot just trying to get food to feed their families. Children are wasting away. This is what we face on the ground right now,” Fletcher, also the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said in a statement.
Fletcher welcomed Israel’s decision to support a one-week scale-up of aid, including lifting customs barriers on food, medicine and fuel from Egypt and the reported designation of secure routes for UN humanitarian convoys.
“This is progress,” he said, adding that vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis.
The UN agencies and humanitarian community are mobilized to save lives, he said, stressing the need for swift, sustained action, including quicker clearances for convoys going to the crossing and dispatching into Gaza, more trips per day to the crossings, safe routes that avoid crowded areas and an end to attacks on people gathering for food.
According to the senior UN official, more than 59,000 people have reportedly been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, and nearly 18,000 of them are children.
“International humanitarian law must be respected. Aid must not be blocked, delayed or come under fire. Hostages must be released, immediately and unconditionally,” he said.
“Ultimately of course we don’t just need a pause — we need a permanent ceasefire,” said Fletcher. ■
The US and China are due to start a fresh round of talks on Monday as expectations grow that the world’s two biggest economies could agree a 90-day extension to their trade war truce.
The meetings in Sweden – led on Washington’s side by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and for Beijing by Vice Premier He Lifeng – come hours after US President Donald Trump announced a framework tariffs deal with the European Union.
The current 90-day truce between the US and China – which saw the two countries temporarily lowering tariffs on each other – is set to end on 12 August.
Since Trump returned to the White House in January, the US and China had raised import levies on each other to more than 100%.
The current 90-day tariffs pause came after top officials from the US and China met in Geneva and London earlier this year.
Last week, Bessent said talks with China were in “a very good place” and suggested the new round of talks could result in a second truce.
On Monday, citing sources on both sides, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that the US and China are expected to extend the truce by another three months.
Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that the US has frozen restrictions on technology exports to China to avoid hurting trade talks and help Trump secure a meeting with President Xi Jinping this year.
Technology exports, specifically chips used for artificial intelligence (AI), have been at the centre of the trade dispute.
US security officials have raised concerned that high-end US chips could be used by China’s military and help its companies in the race for innovation.
The BBC has contacted the US Treasury and the Commerce Department, and the Chinese embassy in Washington for comment.
The latest US-China talks come after Washington struck deals with both the EU and Japan in the last week.
On Sunday, Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a trade agreement framework.
It ended a months-long standoff between two of the world’s biggest economic partners.
Last week, Trump said Washington had agreed a “massive” trade deal with Tokyo.
Under the agreement, Japan would invest $550bn (£407bn) in the US while its goods sold to America would be taxed at 15% when they reach the country – below the 25% tariff Trump had threatened.
The US has also struck tariffs deals with the UK, Indonesia and Vietnam.
At 10%, Britain has negotiated the lowest US tariff rate so far.
No similar breakthrough is expected from the US-China talks this week but, with expectations of an extension to their truce, there are hopes that global trade will not be hit by fresh tariffs disruption.
