Last week, members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party pressed the Biden administration to look into two drone makers with a connection to DJI and to place CATL on a Defense Department blacklist.

In August, China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) published the following regulatory documents as a domestic step to allow more food imports from the Solomon Islands, Vietnam, Honduras, and Tanzania, following high-level meetings and agreements.

A new IMF paper tries to quantify Chinese subsidies and their effects, and ties them to the debate on "overcapacity."

Following the Canadian government decision to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs, steel, and aluminum last week, the Canadian Marine Industries and Shipbuilding Association (CMISA) has called for tariffs on Chinese-built ships as well.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: In China: * Wang-Sullivan meeting  * China's preliminary anti-dumping ruling on EU brandy * Prospects of China raising tariffs on big engine cars In North America: * U.S. court case on Chinese solar company and forced labor * USTR solicits comments on China'

With a WTO panel on the verge of being established, USTR is asking stakeholders for comments on a Chinese complaint against tax incentives under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce published its preliminary ruling in the anti-dumping investigation on EU brandy, finding that dumping had occurred but deciding not to impose anti-dumping duties for the time being.