A recent paper for the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, titled "Geopolitical Risk and Decoupling: Evidence from U.S. Export Controls," estimated the financial impact of U.S. export controls on the affected U.S. companies to be $857 million on average, with a total of

Last week, news reports indicated that the European Commission had conducted searches of Chinese company Nuctech in relation to an investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, and European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager spoke about the searches and this regulation in a competition policy speech.

The EU has published its official notice of initiation of an investigation concerning Chinese "measures and practices" in the public procurement market for medical devices.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * MOFCOM’s trade remedy measures on Taiwanese plastics and U.S. chemicals * The 6th Ministerial Conference of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries * Updated export control rules on precursor chemicals In North America: * Event

Earlier this week, a group of U.S. solar manufacturers filed AD/CVD petitions against products made by mostly Chinese-owned solar companies operating in four Southeast Asian countries. The Commerce Department's new rules that allow it to examine "transnational" subsidies – i.e., subsidies provided by a

At an event on the U.S. Section 301 investigation into Chinese practices in the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sector, a number of trade policy experts weighed in on various aspects of the case.

Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its Special 301 report "on the adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights," repeating many of its long-standing complaints about Chinese policies and practices in this area.