This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

China published the Provisions on Countering Unjust Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Laws, another piece of legislation in the growing network of China's sanctions and countermeasures to foreign actions. The new legislation creates a legal framework for addressing the extraterritorial application of foreign measures, effectively bridging the defensive tools such as a 2021 blocking rule and offensive tools such as the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and the implementing rules.

The Chinese government unveiled a 10-point policy package aimed at deepening integration with Taiwan, a move conditioned on the "1992 Consensus." The package offers a mix of infrastructure links and trade facilitation, and came after Beijing hosted the highest-ranking delegation from Taiwan’s main opposition party last week.

China has claimed full implementation of the ruling in the China - Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (DS611) WTO dispute by withdrawing a policy it claims that it never maintained. In reaction, the EU is maintaining a "wait-and-see" approach, with the dispute entering a monitoring phase.

At a press conference, the spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce signaled another push to expand its services sector, as well as to deepen trade ties with Spain and the UAE.

In response to two Section 301 investigations recently initiated by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, a number of Chinese trade and industry associations have submitted comments and one requested to appear at the hearings.

Top Trump administration trade officials weighed in on issues related to the the planned visit by President Trump to China, as well as various other China trade issues.

A U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) ruling that the Biden administration’s two-year suspension of anti-dumping/countervailing duty collections on solar products was illegal has been appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), with opening briefs in the case setting out the legal arguments of the producers.

Public comments submitted in response to a U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) investigation on the withdrawal of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for China show a split between supporters and opponents on the possible move.

As a lawsuit on raids conducted by the European Commission on a Chinese security scanner company gets a court hearing, a full-scale investigation of subsidies to the company is moving ahead.

The UK's Minister for Energy announced a ban preventing Chinese turbine suppliers from participating in offshore wind projects, further fueling tensions with Beijing.