Yesterday, the White House posted the text of trade agreements it signed with Cambodia and Malaysia. Both agreements have a number of provisions that target or have an impact on China in some way. The Cambodia agreement is here and the Malaysia agreement is here. With regard to provisions that

On Friday, USTR initiated a Section 301 investigation of China's compliance with the Phase One trade deal, adding a new element to the broadening U.S.-China trade conflict.

Adding to the list of Canada-China trade conflicts, the Canadian government announced on Friday that it was initiating anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations on imports of truck bodies from China.

This week, economic friction between China and the U.S. continued to deepen. China's Ministry of Commerce issued its 2025 Report on WTO Compliance of the United States, accusing Washington of systematically violating WTO rules and undermining the multilateral trading system. The Trump administration followed through on another

The New York Times is reporting today that the Trump administration is likely to begin a Section 301 investigation to evaluate China's compliance with its obligations under the 2020 Phase One trade deal. In the report, the Times says that "[t]he Trump administration is preparing to

In a new piece, Tobias Gehrke and Janka Oertel of the European Council on Foreign Relations set out a number of ways the EU could escalate the ongoing trade conflict with China, in order to ultimately negotiate its way to a "landing zone."

The European response to the recently announced expansion of Chinese rare earth export controls has been careful and measured, but it is clear that EU officials are concerned, and they are considering tough retaliatory measures.