(Bloomberg) -- Talks resume in Washington this week between the U.S. and China over the trade dispute. With a previous round of discussions ending on an optimistic note and about four weeks before the U.S.-imposed deadline for a deal, all eyes are on what they can hammer our over the next two days.

Here’s what the two sides are looking for, and here’s the timeline of what’s happened this past year, in reverse chronological order.

Further Reading

  • Timeline of the dispute from the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
  • U.S. Trade Representative’s press release and report on the Section 301 tariffs on IP.
  • WTO dispute list.
  • Campaign speech by Donald Trump from June 2016 detailing much of what has become his international economic policy
  • U.S. tariff lists:
    • On $34 billion in imports (final)
    • On $16 billion in imports (final)
    • On $200 billion in imports (initial)
  • Translation of all China’s tariff lists (with links to the original Chinese ones)
  • China’s white paper making its case on trade.

--With assistance from Matthew Boesler, Natalie Lung, Jeff Kearns, Xiaoqing Pi and Miao Han.

To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: James Mayger in Beijing at jmayger@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey Black at jblack25@bloomberg.net, James Mayger

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