China said that the US has eased certain export restrictions in line with a “hard-won” framework reached at talks, warning against “blackmail and coercion” as the countries attempt to de-escalate a ruinous trade war.

The Trump administration’s new trade deal with Vietnam aims to shut down any “backdoor” routes that allow Chinese goods to circumvent tariffs and flood the U. S.

President Donald Trump’s two-tiered trade deal with Vietnam aims squarely at practices China has long used to skirt US tariffs: The widespread legal shifting of production to Southeast Asian factories and the murkier and illegal “origin washing” of exports through their ports.