Simon Lester
Members of Congress Continue Push for Funding to Enforce Uyghur Forced Labor Bill
A bipartisan group of members of Congress who head up the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees "requesting expanded funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to vigorously enforce the import restrictions required by the
Canada Excludes Huawei, ZTE from 5G Market
After a long period of internal debate and discussion, Canada announced last week that it would exclude the Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE from its 5G market and the broad range of products connected to it.
CTM Weekly Newsletter
This past week, CTM covered the following issues:
* Chinese IP court rulings on foreign trademarks, a Chinese antitrust investigation, Chinese foreign investment data and challenges against a Chinese government expropriation of a foreign investment, remarks by Chinese political leaders on trade issues, and Chinese objections to U.S. competitiveness legislation.
China Removes Restrictions on Canadian Canola Seeds
The Canadian government announced yesterday that "Canada has been advised that
China has reinstated access to its market for two Canadian companies that China
Customs had suspended from exporting canola seed to China since March 2019." The
Chinese restrictions had been the subject of a Canadian request for
Bipartisan Group of U.S. Senators Calls for Taiwan's Inclusion in Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
In advance of the Biden administration's expected launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) next week, a bipartisan group of 52 Senators sent a letter to President Biden yesterday calling for the inclusion of Taiwan in the IPEF.
U.S.-EU TTC Meeting Touches on Competition with China
On May 15 and 16 in France, the United States and the European Union held their second round of ministerial meetings as part of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC), to "advance Transatlantic cooperation and democratic approaches to trade, technology, and security that deliver for people on both sides
Canadian Senate Debates Bill that Would Ban Goods from Xinjiang
As we reported last November, Canadian Senator Leo Housakos of the opposition Conservative party introduced a bill to amend the Customs Tariff so as to prohibit the importation of goods manufactured in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Last week, the Canadian Senate debated the bill as part of