As U.S. and Chinese trade officials meet in Paris to discuss preparations for a possible visit by President Trump to China, the Trump administration's war in Iran has threatened to get in the way of the meeting.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce's final determination in the halogenated butyl rubber case represents another step in the "thawing" of Beijing-Ottawa relations, moving away from the retaliatory cycle that defined the past two years. China has signaled a willingness to use its trade remedy toolkit as

Beijing is moving to overhaul how local governments issue financial support, announcing a new “negative-list” approach to curb improper subsidies and eliminate internal trade barriers.

In a determination last week, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) found that imports of active anode material have not "materially retarded the establishment of an industry in the United States," and therefore rejected the imposition of duties of over 15o%. This determination may indicate the difficulty

China's Ministry of Commerce issued a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration on Friday, accusing Washington of using "overcapacity" as a pretext to revive unilateral trade barriers that have been found inconsistent with World Trade Organization rules.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In its 2026 government work report, the Chinese government vowed to open wider to the outside world while doubling down on manufacturing and homegrown innovation. China's National People's Congress (NPC) meetings this week and Premier Li Qiang'

The Trump administration announced today that it was initiating Section 301 investigations of 60 economies, including China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, to determine "whether acts, policies, and practices of each of these economies related to the failure to impose and effectively enforce a ban on the importation of goods