At a press conference [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmNXH0uEYKY] following the APEC Ministers Meeting, New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor was asked several questions about the applications by Taiwan and China to join the CPTPP. He avoided offering a specific response to

In July, we reported [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-makes-preliminary-affirmative-cvd-finding-on-mobile-access-equipment-china-but-says-currency-undervaluation-did-not-provide-a-countervailable-benefit/] on the Commerce Department's preliminary determination [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/30/2021-16332/certain-mobile-

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

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

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

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