This is a guest post by Kyounghwa Kim of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA). It summarizes a longer KITA report by Bo-Hee Jun and Ui-Yoon Jo. The Korea International Trade Association (KITA) published a paper entitled “30 years of Diplomatic Relations between Korea and China: Changes in Trade Structure

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2346] definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of steel wind towers from China. The level of the anti-dumping duties ranges from 7.2% to 19.2%. One aspect of the Commission's reasoning relates to

In an announcement [https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/commerce-acts-deter-misuse-biotechnology-other-us-technologies-peoples] of a final rule to be published in the federal register [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27406/addition-of-certain-entities-to-the-entity-list-and-revision-of-an-entry-on-the-entity-list] on December 17, the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Commerce Department said it

At the July 8 and 9, 2021 meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods, for which the minutes have just recently been circulated by the WTO [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/G/C/M140.pdf&Open=True] , several WTO

In mid-September, we wrote about [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/cfius-and-korean-government-finishing-up-security-review-of-chinese-purchase-of-korean-semiconductor-company/] a CFIUS review of a proposed purchase of a South Korean semiconductor company by a Chinese equity fund. The purchase has now been cancelled, as it could not obtain approval from CFIUS. In March of this year, the South Korean

Having previously passed slightly different versions of legislation designed to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (see here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] and here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] ), the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have now reached a compromise and drafted legislation that

As part of his visit to a number of Asian countries, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech [https://www.state.gov/a-free-and-open-indo-pacific/] yesterday about various aspects of the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy, including the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework that has been promoted [https://www.chinatrademonitor.