U.S. Urges China to Open Trade After Sparing It Manipulator Tag
- Treasury keeps six economies on its forex monitoring list
- Calls on China to let market forces allow yuan strengthening
U.S. Stops Short of Calling China a Currency Manipulator
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The U.S. stopped short of branding China a currency manipulator, but urged the world’s second-largest economy to let the yuan rise with market forces and embrace more trade.
No major trading partner is manipulating its currency for an unfair trade advantage, according to the first foreign-currency report released by the Treasury Department under President Donald Trump on Friday. It kept China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany and Switzerland on its foreign-exchange monitoring list.