date:Dec 11, 2018
if the higher tariffs are to be voided.
That includes demands for increased purchases of U.S. goods in a more open Chinese market, as well as structural changes to a system that, for example, forces American firms to turn over technology to Chinese partners as a condition of doing business.
We need agricultural sales and we need manufacturing sales. We need structural changes on this fundamental issue of non-economic technology transfer, Lighthizer said.
The demands are similar to those made