Dhaka, June 28 -- The US has reached an agreement with China to speed up rare earth shipments into America, a White House official has said, amid efforts to end a trade war between the world's biggest economies.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US had signed a deal with China the previous day, without providing additional details, and that there might be a separate deal coming up that would "open up" India.

China confirmed the details of the deal on Friday, and reiterated that it will continue to approve the export permits of controlled items.

During US-China trade talks in May in Geneva, Beijing committed to removing non-tariff countermeasures imposed against the US since 2 April, although it was unclear how some of th...