This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

China will send Commerce Minister Wang Wentao to the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Cameroon next week to push for WTO reform and closer economic links with Africa, while keeping a cautious but open channel with the U.S. after "frank, in‑depth and constructive" talks in Paris, the Commerce Ministry said Thursday.

China's Ministry of Commerce issued a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration, accusing Washington of using "overcapacity" as a pretext to revive unilateral trade barriers through a recently initiated Section 301 investigation, as tariffs under Section 301 have previously been found inconsistent with WTO rules.

Apple recently agreed to cut the commissions it charges app developers in mainland China after talks with regulators, making a concession and easing mounting pressure and an antitrust threat.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce's final determination in the halogenated butyl rubber case represents another step in the "thawing" of Beijing-Ottawa relations, moving away from the retaliatory cycle that defined the past two years. 

Beijing is moving to overhaul how local governments issue financial support, announcing a new "negative-list" approach to curb improper subsidies and eliminate internal trade barriers.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer provided updates on his meeting with Chinese counterparts in Paris and weighed in on several issues related to China-U.S. trade relations after a meeting with his Chinese counterparts in Paris.

In anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of active anode material (i.e. processed graphite) from China, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that imports have not "materially retarded the establishment of an industry in the United States," and therefore rejected the imposition of duties of over 15o%. 

The EU sanctioned two Chinese tech firms for cyberattacks that allegedly hacked tens of thousands of devices and critical infrastructure.

At a meeting of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee, the Committee engaged with the authors of a study on industrial overcapacity that looked at China's practices and possible EU responses.

At a meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, a panel was established to hear an EU complaint against China on royalty rates for standard essential patents.