On September 16, China’s Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced on its website that China will extend tariff exemptions for 81 products imported from the United States by seven months. This is the fifth time that China has extended tariff exemptions for U.S. goods. In the

A new set of EU export control rules went into force on September 9, 2021. The new rules apply to dual-use items, which are goods and technology that can be used for both military and civilian purposes.  These rules will apply generally, but are likely to have a big impact

Based on a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), President Biden may soon issue a decision to block the purchase of a South Korean semiconductor company by a Chinese equity fund due to national security concerns, although the outcome is still uncertain at this

On September 10, China’s Ministry of Commerce issued its preliminary antidumping decision on certain monoalkyl ethers of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol / certain glycol ethers (乙二醇和丙二醇的单烷基醚) originating in the United States. It also announced applicable cash deposit rates ranging from 57.4 percent to 65.3 percent. The decision

During a hearing at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on September 8, a U.S. Commerce Department official said that multilateral cooperation is more important than unilateral use of export controls, especially in the context of the “foreign direct product rule.” Speaking on the Administration Views

On September 6, China’s MOFCOM issued an affirmative preliminary ruling in its anti-dumping investigation on polyphenylene ether/polyphenylene oxide (PPE or PPO, hereinafter referred to as "PPO") originating in the United States, and announced applicable cash deposit rates ranging from 18.3 percent to 48.6 percent.

Several recent news articles have discussed Chinese investment in Russian farmland for the purpose of soybean production, and the resulting increase in Chinese imports of soybeans from these farms as a substitute for soybeans from America. This piece considers the geoeconomic [https://www.lawfareblog.com/geoeconomic-world-order] implications of these developments,