Last week, the Commerce Department announced the final determinations in anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations of imports of tin mill products from China (and other countries), leaving the dumping rates unchanged from the preliminary determination but raising the subsidy rates.

The two leaders of a key U.S. House Committee dealing with China issues are pressing the administration for action against Chinese company Quectel Wireless Solutions, citing national security concerns.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * MOFCOM updates control list of technologies for export * December GACC sanitary requirements for food imports In the U.S.: * New pressure to investigate China’s Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) industry * Congressional pressure to blacklist Chinese company Brite Semiconductor * Ninestar’

Litigation by Chinese company Ninestar and its subsidiaries over a U.S. government decision to include them on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List continues, with new briefs filed by both sides.

In a complaint filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade on December 29, two U.S. solar companies argued that the Biden administration's decision to pause certain tariffs on imports of Chinese solar cells and modules was in violation of U.S. law.

Recent company lobbying and Congressional pressure on the Biden administration have put the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) industry, which makes sensors used in autonomous vehicle, in the middle of the U.S.-China tech/trade conflict.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo arguing that the Biden administration should blacklist Chinese company Brite Semiconductor and "tighten its inadequate export controls on American chip-design software."