In a tweet, Mr Trump said a 5% increase to duties scheduled for 1 October will be postponed for two weeks.To get more chinese daily news online, you can visit shine news official website.
He said the delay had been requested by China, and also follows a move by Beijing to scrap some US tariffs.
It comes as the two sides prepare to hold fresh talks aimed at resolving their long-running trade dispute.
Last month, the US said it would increase the tariff rates on all
Chinese goods, which included raising a 25% tax on $250bn of Chinese
imports to 30%.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump said China's Vice Premier Liu He had asked him to
postpone the upcoming tariff increase from 1 October as the date
coincided with the anniversary of the People's Republic of China.The
world's largest economies have been locked in a bruising trade fight for
the past year that has hurt businesses and weighed on the global
economy.
Tensions escalated in recent months and Washington said it would target
all Chinese imports to the US with new duties by the end of the
year.Against that backdrop, both sides are preparing to return to the
negotiating table.
Preliminary meetings are set to take place later this month in
Washington before US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade
representative Robert Lighthizer meet China's Mr Liu in October.
Still, some analysts argue the latest gestures by the US and China have not brought a resolution to their trade row much closer.
"A broad settlement is not in sight," Gary Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics said.
"Beijing is prepared for a continuation of tariffs and hostile rhetoric
through 2020. And Trump cannot back down without getting a storm of
criticism from the hawks, both Democrats and Republicans."
