On June 24, the Department of Homeland Security announced [https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/department-homeland-security-issues-withhold-release-order-silica] that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a Withhold Release Order [https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/forced-labor/withhold-release-orders-

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing [https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-melanie-anne-egorin-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-health-and-human-services] on the nominations of several Biden administration officials, Senator Ron Wyden asked Sarah Bianchi,

At a June 9 event [https://www.gmfus.org/events/transatlantic-trends-2021-conversation-us-deputy-secretary-state-wendy-sherman] held by the German Marshall Fund, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Sherman] provided a useful articulation of the Biden administration's view

On June 21, the newly created UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) initiated its first case in response to an application from the domestic industry, against aluminium extrusions from China. As the TRA explained in a press release [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tra-opens-first-case-in-response-to-

At a meeting held on June 4, 2021, the Australian Senate Economics Legislation Committee discussed the situation of coal exports to China with representatives of the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, focusing on ships carrying Australian coal being unable to enter Chinese ports and the impact on Australian

On June 7, Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified [https://www.c-span.org/video/?512281-1/secretary-blinken-testifies-house-foreign-affairs-committee-2022-budget] before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the department’s fiscal year 2022 budget request and foreign policy priorities. During that testimony, Republican Congressman

At the meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade held on February 24-26, 2021, a number of WTO Members raised “specific trade concerns” about particular Chinese measures, and China voiced its concerns with measures of other Members. The official minutes of that meeting are now