Yesterday, the European Commission announced that it was starting a new Foreign Subsidies Regulation investigation into subsidies allegedly received by Chinese wind energy company Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd.

Following his trip to China, which produced a package of economic and political agreements designed to expand UK market access, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer returned home and presented the results to Parliament.

Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department issued its semiannual report to Congress on "Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States." As has been the usual practice in recent years, China was not found to be a currency manipulator, but was kept

On Friday, a WTO panel circulated its report on China's complaint against tax credits under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The panel found violations of several WTO obligations, and rejected a U.S. defense based on public morals.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. The Trump administration has authorized Nvidia to sell its H200 AI chips to China, with a new mechanism designed to allow the government to capture a portion of the profit from the sales, but the path forward for these exports remains precarious,

In a legal text released today for a trade agreement between the U.S. and El Salvador, the Trump administration has continued its push for trading partners to sign on to provisions that target trade with China, on the basis of rights-based, economic, and security concerns.

In a recent decision, an investment tribunal found for China in a complaint brought by a German spice and food company alleging violations of the China-Germany bilateral investment treaty (BIT) based on actions of a local government.