“Stakeholder concerns remain about long-standing issues including technology transfer, trade secrets, counterfeiting, online piracy, copyright law, and patent and related policies,” the Office of the US Trade Representative said in an annual report released Thursday on the state of IP protection and enforcement among America’s trading partners. “China needs to complete the full range of fundamental changes that are required to improve the IP landscape in China.”

After a two-year tariff war, Washington and Beijing in early 2020 reached a so-called phase-one agreement, with the US reducing some duties in exchange for China pledging to address intellectual-property theft and buy $200 billion in energy, farm and manufactured goods along with services through December 2021. China fell more than one-third short of those promises.

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