The United Kingdom has announced that its trade minister will travel to Taiwan for talks on various issues related to access to the Taiwanese market and to increase collaboration on technology and innovation.

In a U.S. appeals court opinion last week, a panel of judges vacated a lower court decision on a dispute between a Chinese manufacturer and its U.S. distributor that had been subject to arbitration in China.

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the U.S. and Taiwan will hold meetings in New York City on the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade.

At a WTO meeting earlier this year, the United States continued its push for transparency in China's trade practices by pressing for more information on China's state-trading enterprises.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * High level official exchanges with the United States, Pakistan and Vietnam * Allowing imports of aquatic imports from Nicaragua and plant imports from Laos * Decisions on trade remedies for imports from India, South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia * 2022 version of the

At a WTO meeting earlier this year, China expressed a concern that safeguard measures were being overused.

The Canadian government announced yesterday that it had ordered the divestiture of investments by three Chinese companies in Canadian critical mineral companies operating in both Canada and in South America.