At today's meeting of the WTO's General Council, China and Brazil raised concerns with unilateral measures that undermine the multilateral trading system. These countries did not mention the United States by name, but the comments were clearly directed at recent U.S. actions and behavior.

A WTO arbitration body set up to hear an appeal of a WTO panel report that examined Chinese "anti-suit injunctions" has reversed the panel on a key substantive issue, finding that China's policies are inconsistent with the WTO's TRIPS Agreement. This ruling puts the

U.S. solar manufacturers have filed new antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petitions on solar products from India, Indonesia, and Laos, with one of the allegations being that Chinese companies previously producing in China, and then later in four Southeast Asian nations, have now shifted production to Indonesia and

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * Chinese graphite exports * Report on foreign-invested enterprises in China * U.S. anti-dumping determination on processed graphite * New Section 232 cases on polysilicon and unmanned aircraft systems (drones) * Chinese government submissions in ongoing Section 232 cases * Trump administration orders divestment of Chinese acquisition

In a decision issued today, the U.S. Department of Commerce made a preliminary determination in an anti-dumping (AD) duty case involving imports of processed graphite from China, an input used in battery production.

While U.S. Section 232 national security investigations of imported products are mostly political exercises, there is nevertheless an opportunity for interested parties to submit their views, and the Chinese government has been doing so in the various investigations that are currently underway.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Beijing yesterday, with trade relations in general and the China-Australia FTA (ChAFTA) in particular as two of the key topics of discussion.