This past week, CTM covered the following issues:

In China:

• A comparative list of critical and strategic minerals with export control status
• MOFCOM’s affirmative finding in its first anti-circumvention investigation on U.S. optical fiber
• Extension of anti-dumping duties on phenol
• China-Russia energy partnership 

In the U.S.:

• Visit by Chinese trade official Li Chenggang
• BIS revoked general licenses for Samsung, SK Hynix, Intel and TSMC
• Court of Appeals ruling finding "reciprocal" and "fentanyl" tariffs illegal and the Trump administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court
• Appeal of Commerce Department’s decision to countervail transnational subsidies
• Court of International Trade finds Biden administration’s two-year suspension of AD/CVD duties on solar products illegal

At the WTO:

• China submits notification on subsidies