克莱尔·萨维奇（CLAIRE SAVAGE）、马特·塞登斯基（MATT SEDENSKY）密尔沃基——二十国集团（G20）贸易部长周四未能达成协议，以遏制产能过剩、价格低廉的商品充斥市场的现象。特朗普政府表示，这种做法损害了美国制造商的利益。
CLAIRE SAVAGE, MATT SEDENSKY MILWAUKEE — G20 trade ministers failed to reach an agreement Thursday to curb the flooding of markets with overproduced, underpriced goods, a practice the Trump administration says undercuts American manufacturers.
美国贸易代表杰米森·格里尔（Jamieson Greer）在会后表示，尽管未能就这一被称为“产能过剩”的问题达成共识，但会谈是建设性的。“几乎所有国家都同意这是一个需要采取行动的问题。几乎所有国家也都同意，我们目前的贸易救济和应对体系不足以解决这个问题，”格里尔说。
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, emerging from the gathering, said talks were constructive despite not reaching consensus on the issue, which is known as “excess capacity.”“Nearly all countries agreed that this is an issue that required action. And nearly all countries agreed that our current system of trade remedies and responses is inadequate to solve this problem,” Greer said.
白宫指责贸易伙伴生产的各种商品数量超过了市场需求，并声称这导致价格下跌并不公平地扭曲了竞争。特朗普行政当局将中国视为主要违规者，但也对从挪威到孟加拉国的多个国家展开了调查。
The White House has accused trading partners of producing a gamut of goods in quantities surpassing demand, claiming it sends prices downward and unfairly skews competition. The Trump administration views China as the leading offender, but has opened investigations into countries from Norway to Bangladesh.
除了中国产的钢铁，该行政当局还声称，汽车、电池、纸张和半导体等行业也饱受产能过剩之苦，导致美国在竞争中处于劣势。
Besides Chinese-made steel, the administration has claimed industries including autos, batteries, paper and semiconductors have been plagued by overproduction, causing the U.S. to lose ground to competitors.
由工业化程度最高的国家和一些新兴市场组成的G20代表们在密尔沃基的聚会，没有迹象表明在当前最大的贸易争端——美加争端上取得突破。
The gathering in Milwaukee of representatives from the G20, which includes both the biggest industrialized countries and some emerging markets, bore no signs of a breakthrough on the biggest trade dispute of the moment, between the U.S. and Canada.
自今年夏天以来，两国之间的敌意一直在加剧。当时总统唐纳德·特朗普对价值约200亿美元的加拿大进口商品征收了50%的关税，导致加拿大迅速实施了针锋相对的报复性关税。本周局势进一步恶化，特朗普禁止进口价值近10亿美元的加拿大商品，包括酒精饮料、乳制品和摩托车。
Animosity between the two countries have been growing since the summer, when President Donald Trump slapped 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports, leading Canada to promptly counterpunch with tariffs of its own. It further devolved this week, with Trump banning nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.
格里尔周四表示：“现实情况是，仍有一些悬而未决的问题相当难以解决。”
“The reality is there are a handful of outstanding issues that are quite difficult to resolve,” Greer said Thursday.
加拿大似乎是特朗普贸易战中一个出乎意料的打击目标。没有任何国家比其北部邻国从美国购买更多的商品，这个盟友长期以来被认为关系如此密切，以至于两国共享一条不设防的边境。
Canada is a seemingly unlikely target of Trump’s trade war. No country buys more from the United States than its northern neighbor, an ally long considered so close that the countries share an unprotected border.
加拿大贸易部长曼迪尔·西杜（Maninder Sidhu）呼吁开展合作，他表示：“你们正面临与我们相同的一些挑战。让我们互相帮助，共同寻求解决方案。”在会议的其他讨论中，贸易负责人们也未就强迫劳动问题达成协议，而特朗普政府曾将此作为对60多个国家征收两位数关税的理由。这些关税的广泛性——覆盖了99%的美国进口商品——暗示了另一个动机：取代特朗普去年实施、但今年二月被最高法院裁定无效的全球关税。
Canadian trade minister Maninder Sidhu, pleaded for cooperation, saying: “You’re facing some of the same challenges that we’re facing. Let’s help each other and let’s work through something.”In other discussions at the meeting, trade leaders also failed to reach a deal on forced labor, an issue the Trump administration has used as a justification for double-digit tariffs on more than 60 countries. The breadth of the levies, which cover 99% of U.S. imports, suggests another motivation: replacing worldwide tariffs that Trump imposed last year only to see them struck down by the Supreme Court in February.
“信不信由你，二十国集团（G20）中有些国家不愿承诺禁止进口由强迫劳动生产的产品，”格里尔（Greer）说。“归根结底，我们都知道强迫劳动是错误的，它会扭曲我们的市场，我们绝不会容忍。”塞登斯基（Sedensky）发自纽约。
“Believe it or not, we have countries in the G20 that do not want to commit to having a prohibition on the import of goods made with forced labor,” Greer said. “At the end of the day, we all know forced labor is wrong, and it will distort our markets, and we won’t have it.” ___ Sedensky reported from New York.