Two key members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen with recommendations for the implementation of the Biden Administration's August Executive Order on outbound American investment.

In a recent anti-dumping and countervailing duties investigation on optical fibre cables from China, the UK's Trade Remedy Authority (TRA) recommended imposing anti-dumping and countervailing duties, and in its reasoning in the anti-dumping case it took into account Chinese government influence over the industry and

There have been new developments in two WTO disputes involving Chinese trade remedy measures, one brought by Japan and the other brought by Australia.

At a recent campaign event, Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley commented on Chinese investment in the U.S., and her answer provided a sense of the difficulty such investments will likely encounter going forward.

At a Washington International Trade Association event last week on "Trade and National Security: China and Outbound Investment in the Crosshairs," Clete Willems, the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics and Deputy NEC Director during the Trump administration, provided a useful overview of the current discussion

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Revised export controls on graphite * BRI forum * Colombia-China state visit, cooperation deals * Global Digital Trade Expo * Extension of anti-dumping duties on plastics In the U.S.: * Hearing on Chinese labor practices in seafood industry * CTM FOIA request related

Canada and Taiwan have completed their 10 month long negotiations on a foreign investment agreement, although the text has not yet been released and some "legal scrubbing" still needs to take place.