U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke today at an event hosted by The Institute of International and European Affairs. In response to a question on enforcing the China Phase One trade deal, she did not offer any specifics, but instead talked about cooperation with the EU on challenges related

Canada and Taiwan have announced that they are exploring the possibility of a foreign investment agreement, which would liberalize restrictions on cross-border investment between the two and provide legal protections for existing investments.

In remarks yesterday to the the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Convention, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offered some thoughts on China's compliance with the Phase One trade agreement and the Biden administration's approach to enforcing it going forward.

A new Congressional Research Service report on the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) lays out a wide range of issues for Congress related to this agency, including the DFC's role in "countering China."

The United States continues to press China on its restrictions on waste imports, as it has done in various WTO committees in recent years. At the October 8, 2021 meeting of the Committee on Import Licensing, for which minutes have just recently been circulated by the WTO, the United States

The U.S. federal government reached a settlement last week with two government contractors accused of fraudulently using Chinese containers and steel in their contracts with the Department of Defense. The settlement involves a monetary payment as well as training and reporting requirements.

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