Last week, a U.S. Senator called for additional tariffs on Chinese automobiles, and members of Congress introduced legislation that would impose tariffs on Chinese drones.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Russia-China trade * MOFCOM comments on "industrial overcapacity" rhetoric related to green goods * Xi’s visits to Serbia and Hungary In the U.S.: * USTR Section 301 tariff review * Blocked Chinese-linked investment in cryptocurrency mining facility * Biden administration actions

The interagency Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) – which is chaired by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and also includes the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Justice, Labor, State, and the Treasury – has voted to add 26 companies

In a speech yesterday, Lael Brainard, the Biden administration's National Economic Advisor, spoke at a think tank on the topic of "Responding to the Challenges of China’s Industrial Overcapacity."

Today, the Biden administration announced "new actions to strengthen American solar manufacturing and protect businesses and workers from China’s unfair trade actions," including several measures to ratchet up trade remedies on solar products.

Earlier this week, the Biden administration blocked a Chinese-linked investment in a cryptocurrency mining facility located close to a U.S. air force base in Wyoming.

Hesai Technology, an electronics company headquartered in Shanghai, has filed a federal complaint against the U.S. Department of Defense in order to get itself taken off a blacklist of Chinese military companies.