Hello and welcome to Business Matters from the BBC World Service.
With you for the next hour, I'm Sam Fenwick.
So Donald Trump famously said his favourite word is tariff.
But you'd be forgiven for being sick of that word by now.
Tariffs haven't been out of the headlines for months.
And today it's China and the US trade relationship, which are the focus of attention.
And President Xi kind of like to do deals.
I mean, they're the big men.
They're the big enchilada.
They like to kind of do deals together.
I think there'll be one.
But there is some confusion over what is actually happening.
Deal or no deal?
Has there been a pause or not?
So what happens next?
We'll discuss that shortly.
Also today...
The woman behind one of the most iconic and unexpectedly lucrative toys of the 20th century has died.
We'll be talking about how a simple plastic ring became a craze in the 1950s,
kickstarting a wave of toy marketing innovation.