This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Xi visit to Russia * MOFCOM press conference * Semiconductor import data * Certain meat imports suspended due to disease concerns * Anti-dumping expiry review on chemical products In the United States: * U.S. Trade Representative testifies before Congress * Legislation introduced to withdraw PNTR

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testified on President Biden's trade policy agenda, touching on a number of China trade issues.

Earlier this week, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill to withdraw Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) from China, which would raise tariffs on Chinese imports. This bill is one of several that have been introduced recently on this issue, but at this moment none seems likely to be enacted

The European Parliament's Committee on International Trade (INTA) held a meeting on March 20 and 21, touching on issues related to EU-China relations, an EU-Taiwan trade agreement, and avoiding dependence on Chinese raw material processing.

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Services on December 8, 2022, several trade issues involving China that had been raised previously were on the agenda again.

At a special meeting of the WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures in October 2022, the United States and China discussed practices related to a Chinese "government guidance fund" in the semiconductor sector.

The Canadian Parliament has been debating legislation proposed by the Liberal Trudeau government that would amend Canada's investment screening procedures. During the debate, concerns about China have been raised a number of times by the Conservative opposition party, who are pushing to strengthen the bill in several ways.