With tariffs on hold, Chinese production springs back into life for a trade rush with the US,

live from the UK. This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Byrne today. Good morning.

So after the US pause on tariffs for China, Beijing has now announced a 90-day pause

of its reciprocal trade ban for dozens of

American companies. Figures, meanwhile, show bookings have shot up almost 300% for container

transport between China and the US since Monday's pause on tariffs. And there's a suggestion

that could rise further as firms look to ship products out of China before the 90 days

is up. Rolf Haban Janssen is the chief executive at container carrier Hapag Lloyd. For now, most of the

Chinese factories will try to get the cargo out that they have stored, as many of them have not

shut down production. What happens after that? Very difficult to predict, but that really depends on what comes out of those trade talks between China and the US.

Well, just a few days ago, shipments from China to the US were almost at a standstill. Now, companies are busier than ever, as the BBC's Laura Bicker reports.

I'm in southern China in Guangdong province and the sound that you hear behind me

is a sofa being compressed,

boxed up and ready to be shipped to the United States.

Production here has restarted

after several months of a pause

since Donald Trump's Liberation Day

when the boss had to tell his employees to go home.

Our factory stopped production. We put workers on leave because our main market is the United States.

He has now called his workers back to restart his sofa business.

The factory is springing to life.

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