The Trump administration has taken action to bar imports of copper and copper products from a Chinese company operating in Serbia, based on forced labor concerns. This follows a similar action last December against a Chinese company making tires in Serbia.

A recent push by an organization affiliated with U.S. manufacturing interests calls on the state of Texas and the federal government to take action against a Chinese company that has been engaged in producing copper products in a facility outside of Houston.

In an order issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal related to the Section 301 tariffs originally imposed on Chinese imports during President Trump's first term. This leaves the appeals court decision in the case as the final word on the matter for

In recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Commerce has made preliminary anti-dumping / countervailing duty (AD/CVD) determinations on van-type trailers and subassemblies from China.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China’s new Provisions on the Protection of Trade Secrets, effective this month, mark a major overhaul of the administrative trade secret regime, by expanding protections to include algorithms, source code, and "failed" experimental data, and asserting new extraterritorial powers.

The two Congressional leaders of the House Select Committee on China, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Ro Khanna (D-CA), have introduced legislation that would create tax credits to support American magnet production and a domestic magnet supply chain, with a goal of reducing dependence on China

In a submission as part of the remedy phase of a U.S. safeguards investigation into imports of quartz surface products, the Chinese government argued for exclusion of Chinese products from any remedy.