Following the lead of the EU and the U.S., Australia is considering a change to its countervailing duty laws that would allow it to target so-called "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies, which are subsidies provided by one government to a company in another territory.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In international negotiations, China and the Republic of the Congo signed an early harvest agreement on trade, with China granting tariff-free treatment to goods from the African country; and China and Georgia formally concluded negotiations to upgrade their Free Trade Agreement. Mounting

In an ongoing countervailing duty investigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the governments of both China and Cambodia are trying to convince Commerce that WTO law and U.S. law do not allow for countervailing duties to be imposed on the basis of subsidies provided by a government

In a recently released report, researchers at AidData have offered a number of insights into Chinese lending, including the following points: This lending has become more opaque in recent years; it does not go exclusively to developing countries; and the total amounts involved are larger than previously understood but have

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has released its annual report to Congress, with recommendations as to how the U.S. government should respond to various concerns about China through supply chain resilience, investment screening, trade remedies, and other measures.

As the Trump administration continues to announce trade deals, provisions that target China have been a key element of each one. The following substantive issues appear to be important components of one or more of these deals: economic security, non-market practices, forced labor, and restrictions on Chinese products taking advantage

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. The Chinese government formally implemented key commitments from its recent trade truce with the United States, issuing a series of official documents to de-escalate economic tensions. The measures include the suspension of export controls on some items, and the lifting of sanitary