At the recent U.S. – China High Level Agricultural Dialogue in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns offered his thoughts on U.S.-China relations broadly and on agriculture trade specifically.

The German government has blocked the takeover of a German medical device company by a Chinese company on the basis of public security and health protection.

The Indian government has been pushing Tesla for years to manufacture in India rather than import electric vehicles into India from China. Nitin Gadkari, India's Minister for Road Transport & Highways, reiterated this view last week.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * Passage of China's first Futures and Derivatives Law, a new Chinese anti-dumping review, a government report on intellectual property protection and business environment, and a report from an American business association on China's data/cybersecurity regulatory regime. * A

Yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo testified at a Senate hearing on the Commerce Department's Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Priorities.

Yesterday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2022 Special 301 Report "on the adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights."

The European Commission announced yesterday that it had approved "a €130 million Lithuanian scheme to support and facilitate access to finance by companies affected by the exceptional circumstances resulting from China's discriminatory trade restrictions on Lithuania."