China to submit revised offer to join procurement agreement at WTO

China will submit a sixth revised offer to join the World Trade Organization's plurilateral Government Procurement Agreement that is expected to cover more state-owned enterprises and more provinces than its previous offers, according to Geneva sources. The move by China, which submitted its last revised offer in December 2014 , was welcomed by all GPA members, including the U.S. The announcement from China came at a Feb. 23 Committee on GPA informal meeting. China had previously refused to come forward...