On September 2, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade met with three witnesses who supported Taiwan joining the CPTPP as part of its inquiry on " Expanding Membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

In late July, we wrote about [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/usitc-institutes-section-337-investigation-on-silicon-photovoltaic-cells-and-modules/] the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to institute a Section 337 investigation [https://www.usitc.gov/intellectual_property/about_section_337.htm] of certain silicon photovoltaic

On September 2, the WTO circulated a panel report [https://www.worldtradelaw.net/document.php?id=reports/wtopanels/us-photovoltaicsafeguards(panel).pdf] in a complaint brought by China against U.S. safeguard measures on certain solar products, in which the panel found that the U.S. measures do not violate

Qin Gang, the new Chinese Ambassador to the United States, gave a speech [http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zmgxss/t1903557.htm] at an August 31 event held by the National Committee on US-China Relations. It was characterized by one U.S. publication [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/

The European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has called for a bilateral investment agreement between the EU and Taiwan, although the prospects for concluding such an agreement any time soon may be limited. In a press release [https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210827IPR10703/eu-taiwan-

In testimony [https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/committee-on-international-trade_20210901-1645-COMMITTEE-INTA_vd] before the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade earlier this week, Antonio Fernández-Martos, head of unit of Multilateral Affairs and WTO at DG Trade [https://ec.europa.eu/trade/], set

Last week, the Australian Senate passed a bill [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=s1307] – Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced By Forced Labour) Bill 2021 – that would ban imports of goods made with forced labor. There are significant hurdles to the bill