This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

China launched a two-front regulatory offensive against the U.S. defense sector, placing 10 American entities on an export control blacklist while barring 46 U.S. firms from participating in domestic government procurement. The move represents countermeasures in response to the recent U.S. additions of over 100 Chinese firms to the "Chinese Military Companies" (CMC) list.

The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued detailed measures on conducting supply chain security investigations, as the implementing rules of a legal mechanism introduced in April. 

MOFCOM and a number of agencies unveiled a comprehensive 15-point action plan this week to boost and stabilize foreign direct investment (FDI), mapping out market access expansions in the service, finance, education, and healthcare sectors as it looks to buffer its broader economic security architecture.

The Chongqing Intermediate People's Court underscored China’s expanding judicial reach in intellectual property by issuing a global FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) rate-setting judgment in the Samsung-ZTE standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute. 

Tech giant Alibaba filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in federal district court in the Northern District of California, challenging the CMC designation made earlier this month.

Political leaders in the EU debated taking stronger action to address trade imbalances with China, but ultimately put off deciding on a specific action until later in the year.

Canada imposed provisional tariffs on imports of canned vegetables, with a determination on final tariffs for these products scheduled for September.

After its first panel request was blocked at a meeting last month, China requested a WTO panel on Indian measures related to the solar/IT sectors for a second time, and this time a panel was established.

In two recent WTO meetings, China raised concerns with a range of EU measures: EU steel tariffs, an Italian decree on renewable energy sources, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and the Industrial Accelerator Act.

At a WTO Committee on Market Access meeting, Guatemala once again raised a concern with Chinese restrictions on its coffee exports.