Key members of Congress continue to push automaker Ford on an agreement it reached with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) to work together on a Michigan battery factory.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Criticism of U.S. sanctions and "technological suppression" * Diversification of trade * Rules on artificial intelligence services * Expiry review on anti-dumping measures against optical fiber preform * Adjustments to meat imports policies Other parts of the world: * Congressional hearings on

The U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on the CCP held a hearing today on "The Biden Administration's PRC Strategy," discussing export controls, the bilateral trade deficit, and control of international organizations.

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosted what it referred to as a "thunderdome debate" with policy experts on trade and economic engagement with China, focusing on China's PNTR status, the U.S. export control regime, and

In our ninth post on documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO, we describe a USTR report on a U.S.-China bilateral meeting in July 1991.

Last week, the EU adopted two separate anti-dumping measures extending existing duties on Chinese imports, one on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or steel and one on certain continuous filament glass fibre products.

In recent years, U.S. government officials have frequently raised concerns about supply chains, with either explicit or implicit worry about intermediate goods or finished products from China as a key element. In a communication to the WTO last week, China has now offered some thoughts of its own on