In a set of recommendations issued last week, the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party called for several specific Congressional actions to address issues related to production in Xinjiang.

At a House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing last week on "Modernizing Customs Policies to Protect American Workers and Secure Supply Chains," several members of Congress continued their push to rethink the de minimis provisions in U.S. law that they say have allowed Chinese goods to

At the February meeting of the WTO's Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures, Japan raised concerns with China's draft standards for office devices and its draft government procurement law.

The U.S. Commerce Department has issued final determinations in AD/CVD cases on Chinese freight rail couplers. The final injury determinations are due in the next few weeks.

After China's Cybersecurity Review Office (CRO) recently found that U.S. semiconductor producer Micron Technology failed to pass a cybersecurity review, various U.S. government officials have offered a strongly negative response, although the specific actions the U.S. might take in reaction are unclear.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Ban on Micron in the CII sector * China-Central Asia Summit * MOFCOM comments on Japan's new export controls and US-Taiwan trade deal * SPS requirements on French pork * Extension of anti-dumping measures on rubber In the United States: * House hearing

Veteran U.S. trade and procurement lawyer Jean Heilman Grier has reported that there has been a resolution to the disagreement over the appointment of a government official from Taiwan as the Chair of the WTO's Committee of Government Procurement.