Here’s a quick guide to the Trump administration’s talks with a number of different countries about tariffs and trade, as markets prepare for another week of headlines and signs of potential agreements.

President Donald Trump touted "big progress" in tariff talks with Japan on Wednesday, in one of the first rounds of face-to-face negotiations since his barrage of duties on global imports roiled markets and stoked recession fears.

Japan recorded a trade deficit for the fiscal year that just ended but racked up a $63 billion surplus with the United States

A Boeing jet earmarked for China was returning to the United States on Friday, flight tracking data showed, as the planemaker's flagship delivery plant outside Shanghai was drawn into a deepening tariff war between Beijing and Washington.

Boeing already was suffering in its competition with Airbus before Trump started his tariff war. That won't make things any easier for America's top export company.

On April 15 and 16, 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that China had halted or canceled all its orders of airplanes from the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing. An X post of a news report on the topic was captioned: 🚨JUST IN: China has just CANCELED all jet orders from American manufacturer Boeing to in response to President Trump hitting the country with tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods.