A Swedish Administrative Court of Appeal recently upheld a lower court's ruling in support of a government decision to ban Huawei equipment in its 5G market, citing national security concerns.

Chinese leaders met with the Indonesian President recently and vowed to further deepen cooperation in trade and investment, energy, mining, agriculture, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Pineapples and palm oil are among the commodities for which trade could be boosted by this visit.

China's Customs agency announced that it would suspend beef imports from a U.S. company due to the detection of an illegal substance, an outstanding issue that the United States and China were supposed to work on under the Phase One Agreement.

Last week, China and the European Union held the 9th China-EU High-Level Economic & Trade Dialogue. The two sides seemed to make some progress in trade and finance, without resolving more thorny issues such as trade measures on Lithuania or reviving their bilateral investment deal, for which passage in the

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced that it will extend its existing anti-dumping duties of up to 46% on Grain Oriented Flat-rolled Electrical Steel (GOES) from Japan, South Korea and the European Union (EU).

Last month, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament reached an agreement on an EU regulation on foreign subsidies that distort the internal EU market. The regulation still needs to be formally adopted by the European Council and the Parliament before it takes effect, but the substance

After a year long investigation, the Chinese cyber regulator announced a fine of over 1 billion US dollars on ride-hailing company Didi for violating laws on cybersecurity, data security and personal information protection. This marks the end of China's first cybersecurity review.