In our ninth post on documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO, we describe a USTR report on a U.S.-China bilateral meeting in July 1991.

In recent weeks, China's Customs agency has adjusted its policies toward meat imports as a response to disease updates and bilateral negotiations.

Compared to the draft released in April, the final text further clarifies the scope of application and rules on foreign services.

Last week, the EU adopted two separate anti-dumping measures extending existing duties on Chinese imports, one on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or steel and one on certain continuous filament glass fibre products.

Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce announced that it will start an expiry review on anti-dumping measures against optical fiber preform (or fiber preform) from the United States and Japan.

In recent years, U.S. government officials have frequently raised concerns about supply chains, with either explicit or implicit worry about intermediate goods or finished products from China as a key element. In a communication to the WTO last week, China has now offered some thoughts of its own on

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's trip to China * Scrutiny over Japanese food imports * June trade data; e-commerce data * Expiry reviews on chemical anti-dumping measures; extension of review of Australian barley duties Around the world: * U.S. government hearing on