Trump's trade deal with China doesn't actually change current tariff levels

America's new trade deal with China isn't really doing much.

Trump announced Friday that he and China had agreed on a deal that halts his plan to increase tariffs from 25 to 30 percent next week. But it doesn't lower those tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods or call off increases slated for December, making it truly the "phase one" agreement Trump described it as.

The agreement announced Friday isn't so much of a deal as it is a break in more than year of tensions between the U.S. and China. Beyond halting the tariff increase, China also said it would buy $40 to $50 billion of U.S. farm goods. "We've come to a deal on intellectual property, financial services," Trump also said without expanding on what that deal entails. There will be a "phase two" deal that encompasses more of the U.S.'s issues with China, Trump added, though he did suggest Hong Kong's fight with the mainland would "take care of itself."

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Trump has spent 15 months in a deadlock with China on trade, spurring soybean surpluses for U.S. farmers and heightened prices on some consumer goods. Reports that the deal had been reached sent the stock market up, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 320 points, or 1.2 percent, at the end of the day.