US-China Trade Talks to Resume Next Week, Focus on Intellectual Property

US-China Trade Talks to Resume Next Week, Focus on Intellectual Property
U.S. President Donald Trump signs trade sanctions against China in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on March 22, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—U.S. negotiators are preparing to press China next week on longstanding demands that it reform how it treats American companies’ intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from rising on Chinese imports.

A new round of trade talks begins in Beijing on Feb. 11, following up on the most recent set of negotiations concluded in Washington last week without a deal and with the top U.S. negotiator declaring a lot more work needed to be done.