At a WTO meeting of the Council for Trade in Services on October 22, 2021, Japan and the U.S. put China's cybersecurity measures on the agenda. These two Members, along with Canada, Australia, and the EU, offered comments on the measures, expressing concern with the burdens they

On December 22, the WTO circulated the question and answer part of China's Trade Policy Review. The full document is 562 pages and contains hundreds of questions and answers, so it is difficult to provide a comprehensive summary. What we have tried to do in this piece is

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2348] definitive countervailing duties on imports of aluminum converter foil from China. The level of anti-dumping duties imposed [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/eu-anti-dumping-decision-on-aluminum-converter-foil-discusses-role-of-ccp-in-company-management/] on this product several weeks ago ranged from 15.4% to 28.

Last week, Japan announced that it would not send a government delegation of senior officials to the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. Kyodo News said [https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/12/674ae8ca3073-breaking-news-japan-eyes-not-sending-senior-officials-to-beijing-olympics-sources.html] that the decision was "seen as in line with a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of

In a WTO complaint [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/key-legal-issues-in-the-wto-dispute-on-chinas-anti-dumping-rulings-on-australian-wine/] by Australia against Chinese anti-dumping duties on Australian wine (DS602), China and Australia have agreed to procedures [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/DS/589-5.pdf&Open=True] for using an alternative mechanism for

In the $768 billion [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/defense-spending-bill.html] U.S. defense spending bill that Congress recently passed (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R.4350 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350]), there is a provision that prohibits the

The Office of Foreign Assets Control at the U.S. Treasury Department has [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/22/2021-27642/notice-of-ofac-sanctions-actions] added [https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20211216] the Chinese company DJI, a maker of drones, and seven other Chinese companies to its non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial