a week scramble the makers of the scotch whisky fear break that will kill kido day global business. and big fizzle and let's do business it's tense times for traders around the globe what will twenty nine thousand bring could it be the beginning of the end of a trade war that's been rumbling on for almost a year now negotiations to smooth over the u.s. china trade happening now in beijing this is the dispute that saw u.s. president donald trump announce tariffs on chinese steel and before adding several other products later in the year china is america's biggest trading partner and exports more than fifty billion dollars in goods that's a huge amount so far washington is threat to slap tariffs on chinese goods with around two hundred fifty billion dollars china has also retaliated o.b.o. to a smaller scale because the u.s.