Plying everything from handbags to salt in a cavernous Shanghai exhibition hall, US exporters hit by the trade war with China said Thursday they hope improving bilateral relations will bring much-needed stability.

After spending much of this year in a tit-for-tat tariff escalation, the United States and China have agreed to walk back from some punitive measures after a meeting last week between leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

At the annual China International Import Expo (CIIE), US ginseng seller Ming Tao Jiang told AFP multiple rounds of duties imposed since Trump’s first presidential term had “decimated” growers in central Wisconsin state.

“Before 2018 we had 200 registered growers in Wisconsin, in Marathon County… after the first and second round of tariff wars, adding insult to

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