US, China Mull ‘Board of Trade’ to Manage Bilateral Economy Ties

The US and China are considering a new mechanism that could potentially oversee economic ties and manage bilateral concerns between the two geoeconomic competitors.

“We talked about potentially having even a mechanism with the US and China, almost like what we might call a US-China Board of Trade,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in Paris Monday. He said it would serve as a way to formalize the kinds of things the US should be importing from and exporting to China.

He spoke at the conclusion of a day and a half of meetings between US and Chinese economic officials ...