Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te is set to delay until at least later this year a diplomatically sensitive trip his team had floated to Washington for August that would have included transit stops in the United States,

Taiwan said more trade talks with the US will be held this week, while also hitting back at domestic speculation that the self-run democracy had already received a tariff letter from the US.

A preliminary date has been set for the next round of trade negotiations with the US regarding US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, Deputy Trade Representative Yen Huai-shing (顏慧欣) said today.

Taiwan’s top trade negotiators touched down in Washington, DC, this week for their fourth round of talks with the Trump administration.

Such a trip was bound to infuriate Beijing at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to negotiate a deal on trade with China.

Taiwan's government said on Wednesday that a trade delegation led by the vice premier was in Washington, D.C., for a new round of in-person negotiations with U.S. officials this week. U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed imposing tariffs of as much as 32% on Taiwan.

Tech giant Nvidia said this month it would resume sales of its H20 graphics processing units (GPU) to China, reversing an export curb the Trump administration imposed in April to