This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

On July 10, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the General Administration of Customs (GACC) issued a joint announcement imposing an immediate, temporary export ban on helium to protect the domestic industry from severe global supply disruptions.

Last month, a Chinese Court issued its judgment in a high-profile trademark dispute, finding that a popular Chinese tea chain and associated franchisee network committed willful trademark infringement against French luxury brand Louis Vuitton Malletier (LV).

After the high-profile civil dispute, LV is set to face off against China's trademark regulator in a Chinese intellectual property court this week, after the agency approved a trademark similar to the company's iconic four-petal flower monogram for a Chinese company.

In an interview, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer gave a brief overview of his view of the current trade situation with rare earths, as well as a preview of the planned meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi in September.

As part of the process for setting up a mechanism to oversee U.S.-China trade, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office has received hundreds of comments from interested parties.

At a Congressional hearing, members of Congress from both parties pressed a Trump administration official on recent decisions related to the licensing of connected vehicles with links to China.

As the EU and China are in the midst of seeking to calm trade tensions, two new anti-dumping actions may get in the way: An anti-dumping investigation by the EU into imports of Pekin duck from China, and an EU decision to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese passenger-car and light-lorry tyres.

A new report and presentation by the European Commission to the European Parliament builds on several years of experience with the EU's Foreign Subsidies Regulation to propose improvements and refinements to the regulation going forward.

At a European Parliament International Trade Committee meeting, a key European Commission trade official briefed members of Parliament on the state of play of EU-China trade and investment relations.

Earlier this month, trade officials of the UK and China met and made progress toward a potential bilateral trade agreement in services.

The China-EU WTO dispute over royalty rates for standard essential patents is proceeding to the next stage, with a panel now composed to hear the dispute.

At a recent WTO committee meeting, China raised concerns with the anti-dumping measures imposed by various other governments, and Japan raised concerns with anti-dumping measures by China.