The premium of the most active COMEX copper futures over the LME benchmark fell to 26% from last week's 30% after Chile, the world's top supplier of the metal, said the U.S. copper tariffs would be discussed within broader trade talks in Washington this week.

The United States and China are poised to start a fresh round of talks in Sweden, aiming to extend a temporary trade truce that held back triple-digit tariffs while the world’s two biggest economies try to broker a lasting deal.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold wide-ranging talks with his British counterpart Keir Starmer on Thursday that is expected to focus on imparting a new momentum in the strategic ties between the two countries.

Top US and Chinese economic officials met in Stockholm on Monday (July 28) for more than five hours of talks aimed at resolving longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world's top two economies,