At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on U.S. trade policy today, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked about several China and Taiwan related trade issues: The review of the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports, trade negotiations with Taiwan, and China's application to

In a recently issued policy brief, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy has examined existing studies of Chinese subsidies in the green energy and other sectors, and concluded that the EU should use measures such as the anti-subsidy investigation on electric vehicles to pressure China to remove or reduce

In a letter to Biden administration trade officials last week, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and several of her House of Representatives colleagues pressed for more action to limit imports of Chinese automobiles into the U.S. market.

Last week, several Democratic Senators weighed in on a recently filed Section 301 petition, calling on the Biden Administration "to investigate China’s unfair trade practices in commercial shipbuilding that undermine American workers and jeopardize our national security."

In response to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's discussion of Chinese industrial overcapacity last week, Vice Finance Minister Liao Min pushed back against Yellen's comments in a press conference. His responses suggest that there is disagreement between the two sides on the scope and seriousness

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen’s trip to China * China’s new sanctions on two U.S. defense firms In the U.S.: * The first U.S..-China Commercial Issues Working Group meeting * Second phase of US -Taiwan trade talks

Yesterday, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called for the U.S. "to ban Chinese-made electric vehicles to protect Ohio autoworkers, and to combat the economic and national security threats posed by Chinese automakers."