China and the United States agreed to speed up work on an investment treaty after China promised to open up more sectors of its economy to foreign investors, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Friday, adding a deal was not imminent. Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama said after a meeting on Friday that the two countries had agreed to step up work on a bilateral investment treaty. Before the visit, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said that Beijing needed to narrow its list of proposed exceptions to the proposed bilateral investment treaty, and a source familiar with the talks said progress had been made on that point.
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