President Donald Trump’s announcement that an additional $200 billion in tariffs will be placed on Chinese products has been seen as a way to perhaps put pressure on the Chinese government to stop intellectual property theft and enforce its IP laws, however experts who have worked in China and studied the issue are skeptical the tariffs will change much.

Dan Harris, a partner at international law firm Harris Bricken, said a couple of weeks ago he was at a meeting with approximately 75 people, and most agreed that the tariffs were put in place to pressure to the Chinese government to confront intellectual property theft.

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