India, Dec. 11 -- European markets ended lower on Tuesday, although shares came off the day's lows amid reports the U.S. will delay implementing the additional tariffs on Chinese exports originally scheduled for December 15.

Worries about global economic slowdown and caution ahead of key central bank meetings weighed on stock prices.

In U.S.-China trade news, a report from Wall Street Journal said the U.S. plans to delay imposing additional tariffs on Chinese goods.

U.S. negotiators have reportedly asked Chinese officials to commit to some up front agricultural purchases. On the other hand, Beijing wants those purchases to be proportional to rollbacks of existing U.S. tariffs.

An earlier report from the South China Morning Post had said...