Simon Lester
Chinese Measures and Trade Concerns Discussed at the October 2020 TBT Committee Meeting
At the meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade held on
October 28-29, 2020, 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
Canadian Parliament Passes Resolution Calling for Moving the Beijing Olympics
On February 18, as part of the consideration in the Canadian House of Commons of
a “non-binding resolution” on whether the treatment of the Uighurs constitutes
genocide, a provision was added
[https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/House/432/Debates/061/HAN061-E.PDF#page=17]
that calls upon the
China’s Questions at Indonesia’s WTO Trade Policy Review
The WTO conducted its trade policy review for Indonesia
[https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp501_e.htm] on December 9 and 11.
The minutes of the meeting
[https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/TPR/M401.pdf&Open=True]
and
U.S. Question on "Special and Differential Treatment" for Macao at the WTO Trade Policy Review
In recent years, the United States has pushed
[https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/development-dimension-what-do-about-differential-treatment-trade]
to bring new disciplines to the the area of special and differential treatment
for developing countries at the WTO, and to the practice of self-declaration of
developing
Two New Reports on Decoupling
Two new reports on economic “decoupling” between the United and China have just
been released. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has issued a report
[https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/024001_us_china_decoupling_report_fin.pdf]
entitled “Understanding U.S.-China Decoupling” that warns of the economic
U.S. House Resolution Introduced to Press for Moving the 2022 Olympics Out of China, or to Boycott if They Are Not Moved
On February 15, 2021, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) introduced a resolution in the
House of Representatives
[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/129/text]
(H.Res.129) “[u]rging the United States Olympic Committee, the International
Olympic Committee, and the Olympic Committees of other countries to
U.S. House Resolution Introduced to "Rebid the 2022 Olympic Winter Games" and Boycott if They Are Held in China
On February 11, 2021, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) introduced a concurrent
resolution in the House of Representatives
[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/16]
(H.Con.Res.16) “[u]rging that the International Olympic Committee rebid the 2022
Olympic Winter Games, and expressing the sense