SHANGHAI—The United States does not plan to send senior government officials to attend a major import expo in Shanghai next month, a U.S. embassy spokesman said on Oct. 24, urging Beijing to end what he called harmful and unfair trade practices.
The world’s two biggest economies are locked in an escalating tariff row, with President Donald Trump having railed against China for intellectual property theft, entry barriers facing U.S. businesses and a gaping U.S. trade deficit.
