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.

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."

The UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has started investigations of imports of fibre optic cables from China, the third "new case" -- i.e., not one that was part of a transition after the UK left the EU -- that the TRA has opened and the second against imports from

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai offered some thoughts today on the U.S.-China relationship and where it might be going.

As part of an event hosted by the Bretton Woods Committee, World Bank President David Malpass was asked by Bretton Woods Committee Vice Chair William R. Rhodes about several issues related to Chinese lending, such as transparency and debt restructuring.