At a House Agriculture Committee hearing on January 20, the questions from members of Congress for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack touched on a couple China-related issues: Chinese purchases of U.S. farmland and enforcement of the Phase One trade deal.

The U.S. State Department has announced that three Chinese entities will be subject to sanctions due to "missile technology proliferation activities."

In a Federal Register notice to be published on January 24, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on behalf of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), is seeking input from the public on "how best to ensure that goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured

This past week's CTM pieces covered new U.S. legislation related to Chinese imports, and discussions of China trade issues in the UK Parliament; several new developments related to trade remedies; court decisions addressing Chinese company operations abroad, as well as Chinese domestic policies; new economic data; import

At a Peterson Institute event on "Subsidies are on the rise. Are they a necessary evil?," U.S. law professor Julia Ya Qin offered some thoughts on the unique nature of subsidies in China.

At a session of the UK House of Commons today, when answering a question from a Member of Parliament from the Labour Party about UK government policies on imports from Xinjiang, a high-level government trade official said that "a mix" of responses are needed and it "

In November, we wrote about the European Commission imposing anti-dumping duties ranging from 19.7% to 44% on imports of optical fibre cables from China. Yesterday, the European Commission announced countervailing duties on the same products.