President Donald Trump’s two-tiered trade deal with Vietnam aims squarely at practices China has long used to skirt US tariffs: The widespread legal shifting of production to Southeast Asian factories and the murkier and illegal “origin washing” of exports through their ports.

The United States lifted export restrictions on exports of chip design software to China, a trio of chip design software companies said.

NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - The United States has lifted restrictions on exports to China for chip design software developers and ethane producers, a further sign of de-escalating U.S.-Sino trade tensions including concessions from Beijing over rare earths.

The Trump administration has rescinded some restrictions on the export of chip-design software to China, just weeks after putting the limitations in place. Software firms Synopsys and Cadence and the software arm of Siemens said they had recently received letters from the Bureau of Industry and Science notifying them that the administration was lifting