This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

China's market regulators have unveiled a draft overhaul of the E-Commerce Law, creating new legal mechanisms to retaliate against foreign governments and penalize overseas companies that harm Chinese commercial interests.

Trade data shows that China's exports of rare earths and rare earth products have softened in a relatively narrow band in recent months, showing that Beijing's controls continue to reshape trade flows without fully choking off global supply.

Top Chinese and Dutch trade officials met in Beijing on Tuesday to ease escalating technology tensions and signal progress toward resolving ongoing semiconductor and investment frictions.

The Trump administration initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether imports of certain coal products threaten national security. For one of the two products at issues, there are a significant number of imports from China.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and its U.S. payment processor agreed to pay $600 million to settle U.S. government allegations that they let merchants use their platforms to smuggle illegal pharmaceuticals and pill presses into the United States.

The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) denied Digitalsystem’s application for authorization to provide international telecommunications services under Section 214 of the Communications Act.

In a recent meeting, officials from the UK Government answered questions from Members of Parliament about China-UK economic relations, touching on issues that included the overall strategy towards China, priorities, and responses to Chinese imports that benefit from subsidies.

Based on a Canadian agency decision last week, imports of truck bodies from China will be subject to anti-dumping duties ranging from around 120% to over 250%.

As part of a study on "Enforcing Canada's Import Ban on Goods Produced Using Forced Labour," a Canadian Parliamentary committee recently asked officials from the Canadian Government about labor concerns related to the importation of Chinese EVs.