At an event put on by the Washington International Trade Association and the Asia Society Policy Institute, a USTR official outlined U.S. concerns with Chinese electric vehicles and offered a general time-frame for the ongoing Section 301 tariff review.

At the WTO's Committee on Rules of Origin meeting on June 6, for which the minutes were recently circulated, there was a discussion of the utilization by least developed countries of China's tariff preferences.

China's planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), along with several other agencies, has published 28 measures to bolster the private economy. This is part of the central government's effort to send a signal to boost market confidence.

On July 31, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency body that reviews certain transactions involving foreign investment in the United States to determine the effect on national security, released its annual report to Congress for 2022.

The minutes of the WTO's Committee of Government Procurement meeting discussing the resolution of the blocked appointment of the Chair of the Committee have now been circulated.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Yogibo, a New Hampshire-based furniture seller, agreed to pay $217,832 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay customs duties on imports from China.

In a paper published last week by the French Institute of International Relations, research fellow John Seaman argues that China's recent export controls on gallium and germanium may not have a big impact themselves, but they are "a shot across Washington’s bow and an invitation to