In a piece last week entitled "Implementing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: A Challenge Worth the Effort," U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) wrote for its online magazine about an enforcement action under the the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) related to imports of red

Due to the recent holidays, this week's newsletter is for the past two weeks. Over this time, CTM conducted an interview with former European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström, and also covered the following issues. In China: * Lower tariffs on a wide range of products. * Extension of anti-dumping

Several recent media reports indicate that China may be removing some restrictions on Australian coal imports, which could be a first step towards a broader easing of Australia-China trade conflict.

Through a records request at the U.S. National Archives, we obtained a number of documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO. In the coming months, we will do a series of posts about these documents. This is the first in

In late December, the Zimbabwe government adopted measures to encourage Chinese lithium mining companies to do more processing in Zimbabwe, rather than simply export raw lithium for processing elsewhere.

At two WTO meetings earlier this year for which the minutes have now been circulated, a number of issues related to China trade were raised by other Members against China (including regulations on cosmetics and food imports), and also by China in relation to other Members (such as export controls

At the meeting of the WTO's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade on July 13-15, 2022, a number of WTO Members raised "specific trade concerns" (STCs) about particular Chinese measures, and China voiced its concerns with measures of other Members.