"It's a very helpless feeling," said auto parts executive Kevin Feig, on being subject to tariffs.

China is the No. 2 export market for U.S. vehicles, notably the BMW X5 sport utility vehicle assembled in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

Beijing will take unspecified “necessary countermeasures,” the Cabinet said in a one-sentence statement.

The United States is delaying tariffs on some Chinese-made items and removing other Chinese imports from its target list altogether.

Europe braces for renewed hostilities with the United States over import tariffs.

Caterpillar has lowered expectations for the year, blaming tariffs and China's economic slowdown.

"This is a really exciting time for the garlic capital of the world," says Ken Christopher of Christopher Ranch in Gilroy, California.

China’s state-run media has been tight-lipped about trade talks, but a mystery social media account seems to have the inside track.

The overall deficit getting bigger isn't necessarily a bad thing, said Dan Ikenson, director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.

U.S.-China negotiators have less than three weeks to come to a deal before the trade war deepens. Tariffs on Chinese imports are set to rise from 10 percent to 25 percent after March 1. An official delegation begins meeting Monday…