The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on the Nominations of Maria Pagan to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Geneva Office) and Christopher Wilson to be USTR's Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator (as well as Brent Neiman to be Deputy Under Secretary of the

In the UK House of Commons on October 21, MP Dave Doogan [https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?house=Commons&memberId=4736] (SNP) asked [https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-10-21/debates/6E97FBB0-0EBF-4D51-87B1-EB591BBFBB5A/UKPorkTradeWithChina?highlight=china#contribution-25DBE0C1-AC65-410D-BBF4-2F8DB321934A] the UK Secretary of State for International Trade the following question about UK

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives decided to disclose aggregated data from the Commerce Department on licensing decisions for possible sales to Chinese telecoms company Huawei and semiconductor company SMIC for the six month period from November 2020 to April 2021. These companies are on

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) has introduced the Exposing China’s Belt and Road Investment in America Act of 2021 [https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/7/7/7761c7c8-1f5b-4b82-b32e-59d86cee0f9a/9C39928D30260C3333F460C163265018.ros21g09.pdf] , which he said [https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2021/10/kennedy-introduces-bill-to-increase-scrutiny-over-chinese-investments-on-u-s-soil] is designed "to review

Yesterday, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), who are all part of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) [https://www.cecc.gov/], sent a letter [https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=4CCECC26-AC84-49EE-85F6-64FE12376347]

At the confirmation hearing [https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/nominations_-immediately-following-the-business-meeting-102021] yesterday for the Biden administration's nominee for Ambassador to China, long-time diplomat Nicholas Burns [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Nicholas_Burns], trade issues came up several times. Burns mentioned these issues in his opening statement,

As explained here, China's eighth WTO Trade Policy Review is taking place on October 20 and 22 and China has already provided its policy statement. As part of this review, other WTO Members also have an opportunity to comment on China's trade policies. We offer highlights