US Urges ‘Reckoning’ Over China’s Trade Abuses at WTO Meeting

A Chinese man walks past a billboard promoting the country's membership to the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Beijing, on December 10, 2001. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images

GENEVA—The United States promised a “reckoning” over China’s unfair trade policies and urged the World Trade Organization (WTO) to update its rules in order to properly penalize China, U.S. ambassador Dennis Shea told a WTO meeting on July 11.

Washington has raised the stakes in its trade dispute with Beijing, threatening 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. In response, Beijing accused the United States in a July 11 statement of bullying and said it would complain to the WTO.