Simon Lester
New Congressional Bill Targets Chinese Economic Coercion
A new bipartisan bill
[https://bera.house.gov/sites/bera.house.gov/files/documents/Rep.%20Bera%20Economic%20Coercion%20Bill.pdf]
(H.R. 5580 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5580])
introduced on October 15 in the U.S. House of Representatives by Ami Bera
(D-CA), Ann
Taiwan Representative Testifies before Australian Parliamentary Committee on Joining CPTPP
On October 12, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade heard testimony from
[https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/commjnt/25097/&sid=0001]
Elliott Charng of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
Two Provisional EU AD Measures Discuss Role of CCP in Company Management
Continuing its trend of looking at the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
in company management when carrying out the normal value calculation in
anti-dumping cases, the European Commission last week issued two decisions
adopting provisional measures in which it examined this issue. One case involved
imports of
Senator Cotton Calls on U.S. Trade Representative to "Stop China’s Admission to" CPTPP
In a letter [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ustr_cptpp_letter.pdf]
to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai dated October 5, Senator Tom Cotton
(R-AR) called on
[https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-calls-on-us-trade-representative-to-stop-chinas-admission-
Republican Senators Keep Pressure on Biden Administration BIS Nominee
Following up on questions he asked Alan Estevez -- the Biden administration's nominee for Under Secretary for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce -- about general export control policies relating to China, the Entity List, and the companies Huawei and Honor during the nomination hearing, Senator
U.S. Solar Companies Argue that Chinese Economic Coercion Justifies Keeping Identities Secret in AD/CVD Proceeding
As we described here
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-solar-industry-files-anti-circumvention-petition-related-to-ad-cvd-orders-on/]
, 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
New Calls by Republicans to Add Huawei Spin-off Honor to Entity List
As we reported
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/to-list-or-not-to-list-biden-administration-faces-dilemma-on-chinese-phone-company-with-former-ties-to-huawei/]
several weeks ago, the Biden administration is divided over whether to add
Chinese smartphone maker Honor Device Co. Ltd. to an export blacklist on