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.

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

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