USTR to meet with key business group on China developments this week

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is slated to meet with the Business Roundtable’s trade panel on Thursday to discuss the status of the U.S.-China talks, according to the group’s president and CEO, Joshua Bolten. The trade committee will meet with the USTR to discuss the U.S.-China talks before Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin visit Beijing next week. Bolten said BRT’s members are “cautiously optimistic” that Washington and Beijing will reach a deal that addresses at least some...