Today, the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosted what it referred to as a "thunderdome debate" with policy experts on trade and economic engagement with China, focusing on China's PNTR status, the U.S. export control regime, and

In our ninth post on documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO, we describe a USTR report on a U.S.-China bilateral meeting in July 1991.

Last week, the EU adopted two separate anti-dumping measures extending existing duties on Chinese imports, one on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or steel and one on certain continuous filament glass fibre products.

In recent years, U.S. government officials have frequently raised concerns about supply chains, with either explicit or implicit worry about intermediate goods or finished products from China as a key element. In a communication to the WTO last week, China has now offered some thoughts of its own on

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's trip to China * Scrutiny over Japanese food imports * June trade data; e-commerce data * Expiry reviews on chemical anti-dumping measures; extension of review of Australian barley duties Around the world: * U.S. government hearing on

As the EU seeks to work out a way forward in its economic relations with China, dealing with related security and rights issues as well, its key member states are also having internal discussions on these issues. Germany is the largest economy in the EU and its position on these

News reports indicate that China is taking an additional month to review the tariffs on Australian barley that were the subject of a WTO dispute, and which China recently agreed to review.