China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) recently issued notices to update rules for fruit imports from Thailand and allow imported passion fruits from Laos, if they meet the inspection and quarantine requirements. On September 13, at the sideline of the 7th China-ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Animal and Plant Quarantine

The U.S. Geological Survey at the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued the 2021 Draft List of Critical Minerals [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/09/2021-24488/2021-draft-list-of-critical-minerals] today. The list is designed to address the concern that the United States is heavily dependent on imports of certain

We previously reported on the announcement by China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) that it will stop issuing Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) certificates to Chinese goods that are exported to EU members, the United Kingdom, Canada, Turkey, Ukraine and Liechtenstein, effective on December 1, 2021. Some confusion and

In a recent IP dispute, China’s Tianjin Binhai People’s Court ruled that American company Apple was responsible for unauthorized content published by third-party apps in the App Store. As a result, Apple was fined 12 million yuan (USD 1.9 million), according to a report [http://www.cs.

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/taiwan-may-challenge-china-at-the-wto-over-fruit-bans/] , in September China’s Customs agency announced [http://www.customs.gov.cn//customs/302249/zfxxgk/zfxxgkml34/3892452/index.html] (link in Chinese) that it would suspend imports of sugar apples (also known as custard apples) and wax apples from Taiwan, because

On November 4, Beijing Normal University’s School of Economics and Business Administration and the China Institute of Research and Social Development jointly issued the “2021 Report on China’s Import Development.” The report summarizes China’s import policies and provides statistical analyses on China's key import data.

Tensions continue over allegations of the use of forced labor in Chinese solar panel production and blocked shipments to the United States as a result. U.S. Customs officials have been looking into this issue closely in recent [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/new-u-s-actions-related-to-forced-labor-in-xinjiang-in-the-solar-sector/] months [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/chinese-solar-companys-products-held-up-by-u-s-customs/] , and