Earlier this week, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced that he would be "leading a major trade delegation to China at the end of this month, with stops in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai," the first such trip since 2016.

Legislation may only have limited impact on Biden administration approach to Taiwan trade.

Last week, the Biden administration took new actions to keep forced labor practices out of the U.S. supply chain by adding additional Chinese companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List.

At a Ministerial meeting in Paris on June 8, the governments of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States put forward a Joint Declaration Against Trade-Related Economic Coercion and Non-Market Policies and Practices.

Last week, there were two new developments in the lawsuit filed by a group of Chinese citizens, along with a real estate brokerage firm that primarily serves clients of Chinese descent, in U.S. federal court to challenge a Florida law that discriminates against Chinese citizens in real estate purchases.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Plans to improve the unified domestic market * Official comments on Japan-China bilateral relations * Cooperation agreements signed with Democratic Republic of the Congo * Opposition to U.S.-Taiwan trade deal In the U.S.: * AD/CVD decisions on Chinese imports * Congressional

Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act, which they characterize as "bipartisan legislation to strengthen U.S. trade remedy laws and ensure they remain effective tools to fight back against unfair trade practices and