This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Plans to improve the unified domestic market * Official comments on Japan-China bilateral relations * Cooperation agreements signed with Democratic Republic of the Congo * Opposition to U.S.-Taiwan trade deal In the U.S.: * AD/CVD decisions on Chinese imports * Congressional

Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act, which they characterize as "bipartisan legislation to strengthen U.S. trade remedy laws and ensure they remain effective tools to fight back against unfair trade practices and

The UK government announced yesterday that it would set a timeline for the removal of surveillance equipment produced by companies subject to China’s National Intelligence Law from sensitive central government sites.

In two recent trade remedy decisions, the U.S. Commerce Department made preliminary determinations on anti-dumping/countervailing duties on file folders and pressure washers from China.

As part of a wrongful dismissal suit filed in May, Yintao Yu, the former head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. operations, alleged that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has "supreme access" to all the company's data, including data stored in the U.S.

WTO trade policy reviews allow WTO Members to comment on and ask questions about the trade policies and practices of other Members. The fifteenth WTO review of the European Union is taking place on June 5 and 7. According to a Geneva trade official, China offered the following comments at

At a recent hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, members of Congress discussed concerns with the number of World Bank contracts awarded to Chinese companies and with World Bank lending to China, as well as with Chinese lending to developing countries more generally.