Labourer Shuai Hang went a week without work earlier this year when sky-high US tariffs on Chinese goods overwhelmed the warehouse he works at and slowed the company's US-bound parcels to a trickle.

But on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump announced a truce on those duties would be extended, the depot in southern China's manufacturing hub Guangzhou was alive with noise as workers stuffed trucks with packages of clothes and kitchenware.

Many are destined for the doorsteps of US customers of Chinese-founded online shopping giant Temu.

"Tariffs impact our daily lives," said 31-year-old Shuai, whose monthly pay of more than 10,000 yuan ($1,400) had dropped by a third previously.

"If tariffs are slightly lower, then there are more outgoing shipments, and then we have higher wages," h

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