Trade Experts Say China Needs to do More to Meet Core US Demands

Trade Experts Say China Needs to do More to Meet Core US Demands
Shipping containers are seen at a port in Shanghai, China on July 10, 2018. Aly Song/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—The United States has welcomed Chinese concessions since the two declared a trade war truce in early December, but trade experts and people familiar with negotiations say Beijing needs to do far more to meet U.S. demands for long-term change in how China does business.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires to stop escalating tit-for-tat tariffs that have disrupted the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars of goods between the world’s two biggest economies.