SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea will step up efforts to secure a trade deal in negotiations with the United States in the next few weeks, Seoul's top negotiator said on Tuesday, after political turmoil at home had dampened its progress in tariff talks.

Vietnam's trade surplus with the United States surged to $12.2 billion in May, up nearly 42% year-on-year and 17% higher than April, Vietnamese government data showed. Exports to the U.S. climbed 42% from a year earlier to $13.8 billion, hitting a post-pandemic high.

The United States and China have agreed on a framework to implement their trade truce, officials on both sides said Wednesday, after concluding two days of talks in London to defuse tensions and ease export restrictions that threaten to disrupt global manufacturing.

Governor Maura Healey hosted New England governors and emissaries, along with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, at the State House, along with several Canadian premiers.

The broad index is now less than 2% below its all-time high.

President Donald Trump and other heads of state are set to gather in Canada for the annual G7 summit just days after Israel’s unprecedented strike on Iran. Ordinarily, such a development would dominate the high-level discussions,

As U.S. and Chinese officials concluded trade talks this week, new data shows massive tariffs drove Chinese imports to their lowest levels in more than five years. U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods topped out at 145% in April when the Census Bureau collected trade data that showed a continuing decline in Chinese imports from March.

Sir Keir Starmer flies to Canada later to meet Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England who became his country's prime minister in March. The two men will get together in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Saturday evening,