Four new bills have recently been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to limit U.S. investment in China.

Yesterday, the European Commission announced that it had imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyethylene terephthalate ("PET") from China, affirming the provisional duties it imposed last November.

Today, the European Commission announced two subsidies investigations of companies with ties to China, related to bids on a Romanian government solar project.

Multiple reports revealed that China has ramped up a campaign to phase out foreign products and software in government computers and servers with domestic replacements, a renewed effort in a decade-long push for securing government IT products and systems.

Last week, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office issued its 2024 report on foreign trade barriers. The section on Chinese laws and regulations is mostly the same as the previous year, but new concerns on government procurement, labor, and export restrictions have been added.

Last month, China's Customs started allowing Austrian dairy and pork products to enter the Chinese market. On the other hand, it also suspended imports of some meat products from three countries due to animal disease concerns.

At the March 20-22, 2024 WTO SPS Committee meeting, the U.S. made two statements relating to issues it had previously raised on Chinese measures, on the listing of foreign establishments able to export to China and on import restrictions based on avian flu, and later submitted those statements as