US buyer activity on Alibaba Group Holding’s wholesale marketplace surged the week after Washington and Beijing agreed to a 90-day pause on new tariffs, according to people familiar with the matter. From May 12 to May 18, the number of inquiries from US-based buyers to sellers on Alibaba.com, the e-commerce giant’s business-to-business shopping platform, surged by more than 40 per cent compared with the previous week, according to people briefed on the matter, who declined to be named as the...