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- The United States will let the 2020 executive order revoking Hong Kong’s special trading status lapse, restoring the status.
- The decision follows recent U.S.-China trade talks that cut tariffs and signals a shift in Washington’s Hong Kong policy.
- China’s commerce ministry and Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing government welcomed the restoration, urging U.S. respect for sovereignty and noting that the lapse could reinstate preferential export-control treatment aligned with mainland China since 2020.
