At a joint press conference [https://www.trademinister.gov.au/minister/dan-tehan/transcript/press-conference-new-zealand-trade-minister] on November 19 after their meeting, Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Dan Tehan and New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor were asked about a number of trade issues

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2322] definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of optical fibre cables from China. The level of the anti-dumping duties ranges from 19.7% to 44%. One interesting aspect of the Commission's reasoning relates to

As a follow up to the June 24 Senate Finance Committee hearing [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/deputy-ustr-nominee-sarah-bianchi-on-tariffs-against-china-and-chinese-digital-trade-regulation/] on the nomination of Sarah Bianchi to be a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (with oversight of Asia/China policy), Senators submitted questions for the record to be answered later in writing. The

During an interview [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvvLyCLsw3I] at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was asked to clarify the U.S. approach to trade relations in Asia, including its interest in the CPTPP or some alternative, and China's role

Five Republican Senators – Tom Cotton (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) -- sent a letter [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-call-on-secretary-raimondo-to-blacklist-companies-that-provide-ai-technology-to-the-chinese-military] to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on November 15, arguing that the U.S. government "has done little to

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing [https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-lisa-w-wang-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-commerce-vice-jeffrey-kessler] today on the nominations of two Commerce Department officials: Maria Louise Lago as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Lisa Wang as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance. The questions from the

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-solar-companies-argue-that-chinese-economic-coercion-justifies-keeping-identities-secret-in-ad-cvd-proceeding/] , on August 16 a group of U.S. companies called the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC) filed anti-circumvention petitions related to AD/CVD orders that had been imposed in December 2012 on photovoltaic cells from China. The Commerce Department