Simon Lester
USITC Finds Injury, Commerce Department Finds Dumping/Subsidization for Snow Throwers from China
Last week, a U.S. trade agency issued a decision that paves the way for anti-dumping and countervailing duties to be imposed on snow throwers from China.
CTM Weekly Newsletter
This past week, CTM covered the following issues:
* China's announcement of policy measures to stabilize domestic supply chains and create a unified domestic market; updates on trade remedy measures, tariffs, and March trade data; a data leakage case related to a high-speed rail operation; and the issuance of
Current and Former U.S. Government Officials Comment on China's Presence in Africa
At an event put on by the Foreign Policy Research Institute yesterday entitled "Chinese Presence in Africa: A U.S. Perspective," several experts discussed the U.S. view of Chinese activities in Africa.
At Peterson Institute Event, US Scholar and EU Official Talk about Russia War's Implications on Economic Relations with China
At a Peterson Institute event today, entitled "Sanctions, Russia's war, and the future of trade," a U.S. scholar and a European Commission official both offered some thoughts on the future of economic relations with China.
New Report Examines Chinese Lending in Kenya and Impact on Mombasa Port
A new paper from a research center at Johns Hopkins University examines the controversy over Chinese lending for a Kenyan railway and the possible seizure of a Kenyan port, which has been put forward as an example of China's "debt trap diplomacy." The paper concludes as
WTO Meeting Discusses Range of Offensive and Defensive Chinese Trade Issues
At the November 1 and 2, 2021 meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods, for which the minutes of the meeting have just recently been circulated by the WTO, a number of long-standing issues related to trade with China were discussed. Some were concerns that others
TRIPS Council Meeting Discusses Chinese "Anti-Suit" Injunctions
We have previously written about an EU request under Article 63.3 of the TRIPS Agreement relating to "a number of recent [Chinese] judicial decisions and regulations relating to patents," noting that "in four court cases decisions were taken relating to application for and enforcement of injunctions