The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on January 13 that foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland reached a record high of 1.15 trillion yuan ($173.48 billion) last year, and promised efforts to attract more FDI in the new year. How effective such efforts will be depends in

On January 14, China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) released its trade data for 2021. China's total trade in 2021 reached a record high 6.05 trillion USD, while its trade surplus also broke the record and amounted to $676.4 billion USD. Along with the

According to China's Customs agency, China is suspending imports of poultry products from Slovenia and cloven hoofed animal products from Palestine, citing sanitary concerns.

On January 6, China's Ministry of Commerce issued its final anti-dumping and countervailing duty rulings on polyphenylene ether / polyphenylene oxide originating from the United States. In these final rulings, the anti-dumping duties remained about the same as in the preliminary ruling, but the countervailing duties fell considerably and

The Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs is in a week-long series of meetings with a high-level delegation of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members. During the meetings, the officials discussed cooperation on trade, the Belt and Road Initiative, strategic partnerships and other topics.

Canada and Taiwan have announced that they are exploring the possibility of a foreign investment agreement, which would liberalize restrictions on cross-border investment between the two and provide legal protections for existing investments.

China's trade remedy bureau recently announced that it would start an expiry review of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on U.S. distiller's dried grains with or without solubles (DDGs), which had reached the end of their original period.