By CAROLYN HENSON

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA, Mar 4 (AP) -- Talks about China entering the World Trade Organization resumed Monday with Washington and Beijing eager for progress, but some negotiators said China probably will not get in this year.

China has been trying to join the world's largest trading club since 1986; it quit the WTO in 1949. Talks repeatedly have snagged on complaints by WTO members that Chinese trading structures are not open enough.

``The system in China is very different from other countries,'' said one European Union official who spoke on condition of anonymity. ``In the past, there has not been a willingness by China to change its system radically to fit in with world trade rules.''

High on the list of complaints are widespread piracy of video tapes, compact discs and computer software by Chinese companies, and a lack of foreign access into China's banking, insurance and retail trades.

Although the Chinese have promised to reduce tariffs on exports, they have not provided any details, some countries complain. China also insists it be given a longer grace period to make tariff cuts and other changes.

In the past, Beijing always has said it had made enough concessions to qualify for membership and has blamed the United States and EU for blocking its entry for political reasons.

But in separate sessions with American, Japanese and European negotiators earlier this month, China indicated it was prepared to change certain laws.

It promised to eliminate laws that limit U.S. and other foreign companies to trading only with certain licensed Chinese corporations and force them to export the bulk of what they manufacture in China.

The Clinton administration has singled out these barriers as a main reason America's trade deficit with China jumped 16 percent last year to an annual $42 billion, second only to the U.S. trade gap with Japan.