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We give a complete characterization of the positive trigonometric polynomials $Q(\theta ,\varphi )$ on the bi-circle, which can be factored as $Q(\theta ,\varphi )=|p(e^{i\theta },e^{i\varphi }){|}^2$ where $p(z,w)$ is a polynomial nonzero for $\left|z\right|=1$ and $\left|w\right|\le 1$. The conditions are in terms of recurrence coefficients associated with the polynomials in lexicographical and reverse lexicographical ordering orthogonal with respect to the weight $\frac{1}{4{\pi }^{2}Q(\theta ,\varphi )}$ on the bi-circle. We use this result to describe how specific factorizations of weights on the bi-circle can be translated into identities relating...