SHANGHAI, May 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke urged China on Wednesday to buy more goods from the United States and stimulate domestic demand to bring bilateral trade into balance.
"Obviously the (U.S.) trade deficit (with China) needs to come down," Locke told Reuters in an interview ahead of a high-level U.S.-China Dialogue on economic and foreign policy concerns early next week in Beijing.
To do that, China should purchase "more exports from the United States to China and (encourage) more internal consumption within China so they're less reliant on exports."
(Reporting by Doug Palmer; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)