Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Yogibo, a New Hampshire-based furniture seller, agreed to pay $217,832 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay customs duties on imports from China.

In a paper published last week by the French Institute of International Relations, research fellow John Seaman argues that China's recent export controls on gallium and germanium may not have a big impact themselves, but they are "a shot across Washington’s bow and an invitation to

Last week, Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, urging the Biden Administration to tighten the export controls that restrict advanced semiconductors and equipment from being exported to China.

In a conversation with Sadek Wahba of the Wilson Center, Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo offered some thoughts that may help define the boundaries of when the Biden administration sees doing business with China as acceptable and when it is not.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meeting with Indonesian President * Trade and investment data * New anti-dumping investigation on U.S. propionic acid * New efforts on "strategic emerging" sectors In the U.S.: * Congressional hearing on "Economic Security" * Congressional scrutiny of Ford-CATL deal

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, the U.S., Hong Kong, and China continued to argue about a U.S. measure involving the origin marking for products from Hong Kong, and a panel report finding China's anti-dumping measure on steel imports

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on "U.S. Economic Security: Addressing Economic Coercion And Increasing Competitiveness," with issues related to China as a main focus.