President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Monday extending the U.S.–China tariff truce for another 90 days, a White House official told CNBC. The reprieve pushes the deadline to 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 9, hours before duties were set to snap back to triple-digit levels. Beijing’s Commerce Ministry issued a parallel statement confirming the extension, keeping in place the rates agreed in May—about 30 % on U.S. levies and 10 % on China’s retaliation. Without the order, tariffs would have surged to as much as 145 % on Chinese imports and 125 % on U.S. goods, effectively halting bilateral trade. The delay follows minister-level negotiations in Stockholm late last month and preserves a fragile détente first brokered in Geneva in May. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said “all other elements of the Agreement will remain the same,” while U.S. negotiators continue to press China on soybean purchases, fentanyl chemicals and rare-earth export controls. Extending the pause gives American retailers crucial breathing room to stock electronics, toys and apparel ahead of the year-end shopping season and could smooth the path to a potential Trump-Xi summit later this year, trade analysts said.