China warned it will take "all necessary measures" to protect its firms after Washington enacted aggressive new secondary sanction legislation, as Vice Premier He Lifeng is leading a delegation to the United States for high-level economic negotiations.

Last week, the European Commission published a report on trade defence instruments – anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and safeguards – during 2025, including both Commission investigations against imports from other countries and the trade remedy actions of other governments against EU exports.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China’s exports of rare earth products fell in July following a brief surge earlier this year, according to Chinese customs data, as ongoing export curbs and a pullback in overseas shipments weighed on overall volumes. China's Ministry of Commerce

This post was written with China Trade Monitor intern Neil Jiang. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at using advanced scientific testing to prevent Chinese tomato imports linked to forced labor from entering the U.S. market through intermediary countries.

China’s exports of rare earth products fell in July following a brief surge earlier this year, according to Chinese customs data, as ongoing export curbs and a pullback in overseas shipments weighed on overall volumes.

Trade remedy actions that impose tariffs on solar products with a connection to China are continuing, as the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced final duties on imports from three Asian countries last week, with some of those products allegedly benefitting from Chinese subsidies.

China submitted a communication to the WTO entitled "Further Reflections and Suggestions on WTO Reform," in which, among other things, it appeared to push back a bit against WTO reform proposals made by the U.S. and the EU.