As 2019 came to a close,U.S.manufacturers and suppliers of China-sourced goods,materials and products containing them faced a year-end with no sign of an end to the wrangling between both governments.The trade war wanes on without any apparent change,or so it might seem.Although President Donald Trump and President Xijinping have respectively softened their comments,no signs have yet appeared by either that suggest a more reasonable path forward might be at hand.However,the trade war dynamics have been anything but stable.As the relief to U.S.retailers concerning the most recent tranche of sweeping penalty tariffs came to an end in December 2019,China quietly doubled down on its position by implementing new laws that compromise the intellectual property of U.S.businesses in China and the intellectual property of foreign-located related companies,thereby increasing the potential peril to U.S.businesses worldwide.
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