U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai discussed trade policy on a podcast yesterday, touching on various China trade issues such as the Section 301 tariffs and overall bilateral trade relations.

The Chinese government announced that it will allow imports of soy protein from Brazil, effectively immediately.

The Atlantic Council and the Center for a New American Security co-hosted an event today on "Designing an outbound investment mechanism," during which the authors of a new report described their policy recommendations and a Biden administration official offered comments.

A Republican Senator is pressing the Biden administration in relation to a cooperation agreement on financial audits signed by Chinese and American regulators. Political pressure of this sort could make it more difficult to have a functioning regulatory cooperation agreement.

Lithuanian trade officials and business representatives are visiting Taiwan this week to strengthen trade cooperation in high technology.

Republican Congressman Mike Flood of Nebraska sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo expressing concern about "the reported use of Huawei hardware in U.S. cell towers" in Nebraska, and particularly that cell towers "within a certain range of military installations such as missile silos and

Illegal fishing has led to trafficking in products of an endangered fish, with consequences for an endangered porpoise that swims near it. The trade in these products has been from Mexico to China, with the United States sometimes in the middle, and Mexican, Chinese, and American officials have been talking