This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meeting with Indonesian President * Trade and investment data * New anti-dumping investigation on U.S. propionic acid * New efforts on "strategic emerging" sectors In the U.S.: * Congressional hearing on "Economic Security" * Congressional scrutiny of Ford-CATL deal

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, the U.S., Hong Kong, and China continued to argue about a U.S. measure involving the origin marking for products from Hong Kong, and a panel report finding China's anti-dumping measure on steel imports

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on "U.S. Economic Security: Addressing Economic Coercion And Increasing Competitiveness," with issues related to China as a main focus.

At the WTO SPS Committee meeting held on March 22-24, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, there were discussions of a number of SPS measures imposed by China or imposed by other Members affecting Chinese exports.

A new report by Australia's Productivity Commission documents the impact of various Chinese trade restrictions imposed on Australian exports, showing a limited impact on some sectors, either because the measures were narrowly crafted or the producers found other markets.

At a European Parliament Committee on International Trade meeting last week, political and business leaders continued to struggle with finding a way forward on formalizing trade and investment relations between the EU and Taiwan.

The WTO has just posted a June 30 communication from China entitled "New and Full Notification Pursuant To Article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994 and Article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures," notifying WTO Members of China's subsidies from 2021-2022.