The United States and China are trying to reach an agreement to end the months-long trade war. The trade war has cost billions of dollars to the world's two largest economies and disrupted global financial markets and supply chains.
President Trump's government urged Beijing to address concerns about China's practices on intellectual property rights, compulsory technology transfer and industrial subsidies.
The U.S. government has also sought to reduce tariffs, lift prohibitions and reform regulatory procedures to promote greater access to the Chinese market for agricultural products. Two unnamed sources said the United States had asked Beijing to lift the ban on ractopamine and American poultry. Some American pig farms use ractopamine to help pigs grow.
Sources said Chinese negotiators have*refused*to lift the ban on the use of ractopamine, although Beijing may increase imports of American pork because China's pig industry is being severely damaged by disease.
African swine fever has caused massive losses to Chinese pig herds, leaving the world's largest pork market facing a protein shortage, sparking hopes among American pork and poultry producers.
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