In preparation for the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting of November 17, Belgium has raised the issue of "Chinese Anti-Dumping Investigation on European Pork – The Need for a Level Playing Field," and called for a "coordinated and united approach" in response to the investigation.

The review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is getting underway, with all three countries gathering input from stakeholders. One key demand the governments are hearing from certain industry groups is that Chinese trade and investment should be further restricted.

The Canadian government is gathering stakeholder input on next year's USMCA review, and as part of that process there have been some detailed discussions about how China factors into the considerations.

The EU has opened up a new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) investigation involving a procurement bid in Portugal that includes a Chinese company. This type of investigation has already caused friction in the China-EU economic relationship.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China and the U.S. announced that they had reached an agreement resulting in the temporary suspension of specific tariffs and non-tariff measures. In a fact sheet, the Trump administration offered its perspective on what had been agreed to with China as

A U.S. court of appeals has declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking a Florida law that bans property purchases by Chinese citizens and certain other people.

An independent researcher with a proposal for how the U.S. government should address concerns about the trade relationship with China filed a lawsuit to force the government to respond, but a court rejected the claims based on a finding that he did not have standing.