Economics

China Faces Stepped-Up Calls to Slash Trade-Distorting Subsidies

  • U.S., EU and Japan reach deal to give the WTO more teeth
  • Breakthrough in Washington may help ease global tensions
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China came under greater international pressure to reduce industrial subsidies after the U.S., Europe and Japan agreed to push for stronger World Trade Organization rules against market-distorting government aid.