Yesterday, the Biden administration issued a Final Rule on outbound investment restrictions, targeted at China and focusing on certain key technologies.

The Chair and the Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the CCP are pushing the Commerce Department to investigate a semiconductor-related sector called silicon photonics.

In an interview last week, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai pointed out that there has been an increase in the use of trade remedies against China by developing countries.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: China: * New export control regulation * Update on countervailing investigation on EU dairy * Calls for security review on Intel  * Spat over U.S. sanctions on Chinese drone related exports * China’s 2024 WTO Trade Policy Review United States: * U.S. Trade Rep. Tai

In an interview yesterday, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai addressed questions related to China building factories in Mexico for exporting to the United States, as well as the possibility of Brazil joining the BRI.

Litigation over a U.S. import prohibition on solar products is continuing in U.S. court, as Chinese company Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xing) Industry Co., Ltd. has responded to a U.S. government argument that it does not have standing in its lawsuit.

At a Brookings Institution event today, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan offered remarks about the Biden administration's international economic agenda. In that context, he made several comments on U.S. economic relations with China.