Hello, and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Hearing, and on this edition,
a bit more optimism from the US Treasury Secretary on trade relations with China,
and also some optimism from the President himself.
But the IMF warns of less growth as a result of trade tensions.
So are tariffs an economic mistake for the US?
And...
We started a major reprint of a number of games that we make.
We can ship those games to other countries, but if we were to ship them to the US,
we would be paying the US government $14.50 for every $10 that we spent to make those games.
We hear from board game makers who've been badly hit by the tariff measures.
And also,
we're going to hear about Australia's efforts to improve the workplace for people with autism.
But let's start in the US.
The International Monetary Fund's been giving out some revised global growth forecasts because of uncertainty caused by President Trump's tariffs.
The US is predicted to be the hardest hit,
and we're going to find out all about that in just a moment.
But first,
news has been coming in in the last couple of hours of something that might be grounds for optimism about the progress of the trade war between the US and China.
Now,