A new law review article discusses the Huawei investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) challenge to the Swedish government's decision to ban its products from the 5G network on the basis of national security concerns. The author concludes that "it is likely that the arbitral tribunal will substantially

World Bank lending to China was in the news twice last week, as the outgoing President of the World Bank discussed it in an interview and a group of U.S. Senators introduced legislation on the issue.

At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Friday, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testified on President Biden's trade policy agenda, touching on a number of China trade issues.

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

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

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.