In recent weeks, Beijing has invoked the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and imposed sanctions on U.S. companies and individuals for supporting "Taiwan independence" and Xinjiang-related sanctions. This is one of the few times when the invocation of China's anti-foreign sanctions law has led to concrete measures.

Last week, the Commerce Department announced the final determinations in anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations of imports of tin mill products from China (and other countries), leaving the dumping rates unchanged from the preliminary determination but raising the subsidy rates.

Last Friday, in response to a petition by the domestic industry, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the launch of an anti-dumping investigation on brandy from the EU. A few details of the petition are summarized below.

The two leaders of a key U.S. House Committee dealing with China issues are pressing the administration for action against Chinese company Quectel Wireless Solutions, citing national security concerns.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * MOFCOM updates control list of technologies for export * December GACC sanitary requirements for food imports In the U.S.: * New pressure to investigate China’s Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) industry * Congressional pressure to blacklist Chinese company Brite Semiconductor * Ninestar’

Last December, China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) published sanitary requirements for various food imports from Uruguay, Finland, Vietnam, and Kazakhstan.

Litigation by Chinese company Ninestar and its subsidiaries over a U.S. government decision to include them on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List continues, with new briefs filed by both sides.