U.S., China tangle over Section 301 tariffs at WTO General Council

The U.S. and Chinese ambassadors to the World Trade Organization on Tuesday traded blows during a heated General Council exchange on the United States' Section 301 investigation into Chinese intellectual property and technology transfer practices. China, which requested that the Special 301 investigation appear on the agenda for the May 8 meeting, said the results were full of “exaggerations and falsehoods,” according to a Geneva source. U.S. Ambassador to the WTO Dennis Shea defended the U.S. report as “detailed” and...