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.

On January 10, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) finalized its anti-dumping and subsidy investigations of certain U.S. chemical products, and determined the duties to be applied to imports.

China recently announced that it would start allowing imports of Rwandan stevia and additional beef products from Belarus, starting immediately.