This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meeting with Indonesian President * Trade and investment data * New anti-dumping investigation on U.S. propionic acid * New efforts on "strategic emerging" sectors In the U.S.: * Congressional hearing on "Economic Security" * Congressional scrutiny of Ford-CATL deal

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, the U.S., Hong Kong, and China continued to argue about a U.S. measure involving the origin marking for products from Hong Kong, and a panel report finding China's anti-dumping measure on steel imports

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo met in Beijing today. During their meeting, they discussed trade, investment and other areas of cooperation.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on "U.S. Economic Security: Addressing Economic Coercion And Increasing Competitiveness," with issues related to China as a main focus.

At the WTO SPS Committee meeting held on March 22-24, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, there were discussions of a number of SPS measures imposed by China or imposed by other Members affecting Chinese exports.

China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is working on ways to cultivate sectors that are "strategic emerging," according to reports.

A new report by Australia's Productivity Commission documents the impact of various Chinese trade restrictions imposed on Australian exports, showing a limited impact on some sectors, either because the measures were narrowly crafted or the producers found other markets.