JOHANNESBURG, Feb 6 (Reuters) - South Africa said on Friday that its trade minister had signed a framework economic partnership agreement on a visit to China, which it described as a step towards securing duty-free access to the Chinese market for South African exports.

Trade Minister Parks Tau's signing of the China–Africa Economic Partnership Agreement marks a pivotal moment for South African exports, granting duty-free access to the Chinese market and promising increased investment opportunities.

At the start of November 2025, the U.S. and China reached a new truce in their tariff war, which started almost seven months earlier. Read more here.

Japanese voters head to the polls on Sunday in a snap election for the national legislature’s lower house, called just three months into Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s tenure.

BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Brazil is considering pushing for a partial trade agreement between the Mercosur bloc and China for the first time, senior Brazilian government officials said, in what would be a major shift for Latin America's largest economy.

Chinese firms moved to pledge hundreds of millions of investment in the U.K. as Starmer's visit to China spurred a flurry of business deals and money flows.