Ahead of an anticipated visit to China in February, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell offered some comments to the media about his view of the state of Australia-China trade relations and specific trade conflicts.

Last week, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Trade with China Strategic Assessment Act, which would require an executive branch report about trade integration with China.

In the government spending legislation recently enacted by Congress, there is a provision on the disclosure, in the context of merger notifications, of subsidies that have been provided by "foreign adversaries." This provision is part of an effort underway in both the EU and the U.S. to

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meeting between Australian and Chinese foreign policy leaders * New anti-dumping investigation against products from Taiwan * Final rules on data security in the industry and information technology sectors In the United States: * New developments on access to audit records of Chinese

In a ruling circulated yesterday, a WTO panel sided with Hong Kong in a complaint filed against the United States in October of 2020, finding that U.S. requirements that products from Hong Kong be labelled as originating in China were inconsistent with the GATT and could not be justified

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), China blocked the establishment of panels in two complaints brought against it by the EU, related to allegations about China's trade restrictions imposed on Lithuania and about restrictions on EU companies going to a

At the WTO SPS Committee meeting held on June 22-24, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, there were discussions of a number of SPS measures imposed by China or imposed by other Members against Chinese goods.