U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is visiting China this week and meeting with her Chinese counterpart. The meeting offered both sides a chance to discuss contentious issues, including export controls, and to create four new mechanisms for communication.

At last week's China-Africa Leaders' Roundtable Dialogue, leaders on both sides discussed future collaboration with the goal of regional integration in Africa. Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward measures to support the industrialization and agricultural development of Africa.

At a Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures meeting on May 2, for which the minutes have recently been circulated, WTO Members reviewed subsidy notifications that had been made, including the notifications made by China.

Earlier this month, China's Ministry of Commerce launched expiry reviews on anti-dumping measures imposed on chlorobutyl rubber from the United States, the European Union, and Singapore.

In final determinations issued in recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Commerce mostly confirmed its preliminary determinations that several manufacturers of photovoltaic cells and modules have been circumventing anti-dumping/countervailing duties imposed on imports from China by doing "minor processing" in four Southeast Asian countries. However, due

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Suspension of imports from Japan in response to the discharging of radioactive water * Trade barrier investigation against Taiwan, and suspension of mango imports from Taiwan * State visit to South Africa * China-Africa economic relations In the U.S.: * Proposed Commerce Department

As Japan started discharging its treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean today, China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) announced that it is banning all imports of aquatic products from Japan.