China Suspends More Penalties on US Goods After Trade Truce

China Suspends More Penalties on US Goods After Trade Truce
Police officers wearing face masks patrol at a container port in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong Province, China, on Feb. 19, 2020. Chinatopix via AP
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BEIJING—China on Feb. 21 suspended more punitive tariffs on imports of U.S. industrial goods in response to a truce in its trade war with Washington.

Financial markets have welcomed announcements by both sides of reductions in penalties on each other’s goods, though they have yet to resolve much of the conflict that erupted in 2018 over Beijing’s technology ambitions and trade surplus.