In the current Sino-US trade negotiations, the "verification and enforcement mechanism" proposedby the United States has become one of the core issues. However, if any agreement is reached betweenChina and the United States, its verification and enforcement mechanism will be difficult to integrate into themultilateral, and it is also difficult to imagine that China and the United States will sign any bilateral economicand trade cooperation agreements or free trade agreement to include such a mechanisms. Therefore, China andthe United States must jump out of the box to think beyond the narrow framework of current bilateral tradeconficts, and focus on the big picture of the international economic and trade governance structure and the long-term development of China-US economic and trade cooperation. The two countries should consider to establishlong-term institutional arrangements for their economic and trade cooperation, within which to design theverification and enforcement mechanism with a potential US-China agreement.