Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and 17 of his Republican colleagues have introduced legislation [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2587/text] (S.2587) that would put an end to assistance to China by multilateral development banks. The logic behind the legislation is that China has grown

It has been widely reported in the media that Australia-China trade relations have deteriorated in recent months. Some aspects of this issue have been discussed in WTO committees and other bodies. At the May 3 meeting of the WTO’s Working Party on State-Trading Enterprises, for which the

Two U.S. companies in the solar industry filed a petition [http://docs.chinatrademonitor.com/PVCellsModules201ExtensionPetition.pdf] yesterday with the International Trade Commission to extend for another four years the Section 201 safeguard tariffs on crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells and modules. The current tariffs are due to expire on

As part of an inquiry by the Australian Parliament into expanding the membership of the CPTPP, both China and Taiwan came up as potential new members. The Chinese Embassy and the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce made written submissions, indicating an interest in joining. During the related hearings, when pressed by

The following are some op-eds, policy papers, and journal articles on China trade issues published in July: Mary E. Lovely, David Xu, Yinhan Zhang, "Collateral benefits? South Korean exports to the United States and the US-China trade war," Peterson Institute, Policy Brief 21-18, July 2021,

The U.S. Commerce Department has preliminarily determined [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/30/2021-16332/certain-mobile-access-equipment-and-subassemblies-thereof-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china] that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from

The Australian Foreign Investment Review Board recently released its annual report [https://firb.gov.au/sites/firb.gov.au/files/2021-06/FIRB2019-20AnnualReport.pdf] for 2019-2020, documenting the foreign investment transactions it considered during that period. The report offers data and explanations related to investment coming into Australia