U.S. Touts Progress in Economic and Trade Talks with China
(STR Trade Report)
At the conclusion of the fourth meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing May 3-4, the Obama administration released a fact sheet detailing the progress officials made on a range of trade-related issues. Many of these topics were identified as areas of particular concern by lawmakers, business groups and others prior to the meeting. Others, however, such as sanitary and phytosanitary standards, illegal subsidies to state-owned enterprises, technology transfer requirements, export restraints and retaliatory use of trade remedy measures, were not mentioned in a wrap-up of the meeting from the U.S. Treasury Department. Read more here.
Date: May 8, 2012
