A new paper [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3958510] by legal scholar Henry Gao looks at how China’s perspective on the WTO has changed over the years, from initially viewing it as "the symbol for its aspiration to integrate into the world economy,"

In a notice posted yesterday [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/09/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-the-threat-from-securities-investments-that-finance-certain-companies-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/] , President Biden decided to continue for 1 year the national emergency declared by President Trump, and later expanded by Biden, with respect to "the threat from securities investments that finance" certain Chinese companie

In a wide-ranging speech [https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1458134649906122757] today at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung State of Europe event, Charles Michel, a Belgian politician who has served as President of the European Council since 2019 (and was previously Prime Minister of Belgium), offered some comments on the China - EU Comprehensive

As we reported [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/two-recent-biden-administration-actions-against-forced-labor-in-fishing/] in June, on May 26 the Biden administration put forward a proposal [https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/IssueAreas/Trade%20Organizations/WTO/US.Proposal.Forced.Labor.26May2021.final%5B2%5D.pdf] in the WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations that raised the issue of

In response to a story [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-canadian-brands-forced-labour-1.6236820] by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Canadian company Reitmans has pulled certain products from its shelves due to concerns that they were made in a Chinese factory that used forced labor from North Korea. In its

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/review-of-solar-cvd-looks-at-chinese-currency-undervaluation/] , in an administrative review for a U.S. countervailing duty order for imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China during 2019, the domestic industry alleged that Chinese currency undervaluation in this period constitutes a countervailable subsidy. The Department of Commerce

On November 4, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Rick Scott (R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) sent a letter [https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=E6762115-790A-42E5-AED1-EE6854475E5B] to Acting Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International