With China's new export controls on graphite entering into force last December, data shows that the controls have had a significant impact on exports of natural graphite that had not been subject to export controls in the past. By contrast, the impact of the controls on artificial graphite

Last month, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the Commerce Department added thirteen Chinese companies to its "unverified list," but one of these companies, Plexus (Xiamen) Co., Ltd., was able to get itself removed from that list.

Last week, several Republican members of Congress sent a letter to Swiss company ASEA Brown Boveri Ltd. (ABB), expressing concern about its ties to a Chinese crane-making company that has itself been the subject of recent Congressional scrutiny.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. * Chinese court sets license fees for audio standard essential patents * CAC new rules on personal data flows to Hong Kong * Li Qiang’s trip to Switzerland * China-New Zealand free trade agreement * Taiwan's election and impact on trade policy * U.S.

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) recently issued a ruling in Advanced Codec Technologies (ACT) v. OPPO, setting the license fees in China for six standard essential patents (SEPs) related to an audio coding standard. The Court ordered OPPO to pay 15.4 million yuan (approximately US$

At a recent WTO Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures meeting, Japan brought up previously raised issues related to office device standards and China's procurement law, but China argued that this committee was not the appropriate place to discuss them.

During Chinese Premier Li Qiang's official visit to Switzerland, the two nations made headway on reviving trade talks and meetings on financial issues, labor and employment, and intellectual property.