At a recent WTO meeting, governments whose producers could be affected by China's safeguard investigation on imports of beef had a chance to weigh in and express their views.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: In China: * Expansion of Hainan Free Trade Port policies * China's update of export control catalog * Suspension of DuPont China antitrust investigation In North America: * New AD/CVD petitions from U.S. industry on solar products, involving transnational subsidies from China

As part of a regular series of meetings, the Premiers of all of Canada's provinces and territories gathered this week, along with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

At today's meeting of the WTO's General Council, China and Brazil raised concerns with unilateral measures that undermine the multilateral trading system. These countries did not mention the United States by name, but the comments were clearly directed at recent U.S. actions and behavior.

A WTO arbitration body set up to hear an appeal of a WTO panel report that examined Chinese "anti-suit injunctions" has reversed the panel on a key substantive issue, finding that China's policies are inconsistent with the WTO's TRIPS Agreement. This ruling puts the

U.S. solar manufacturers have filed new antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petitions on solar products from India, Indonesia, and Laos, with one of the allegations being that Chinese companies previously producing in China, and then later in four Southeast Asian nations, have now shifted production to Indonesia and

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * Chinese graphite exports * Report on foreign-invested enterprises in China * U.S. anti-dumping determination on processed graphite * New Section 232 cases on polysilicon and unmanned aircraft systems (drones) * Chinese government submissions in ongoing Section 232 cases * Trump administration orders divestment of Chinese acquisition