This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meetings with Indonesia deepened trade cooperation; * China and the EU held a High-Level Economic & Trade Dialogue; * Beef imports from a U.S. company were suspended; * Anti-dumping duties on electrical steel were extended; * A new paper provides recent

A Swedish Administrative Court of Appeal recently upheld a lower court's ruling in support of a government decision to ban Huawei equipment in its 5G market, citing national security concerns.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing today for agriculture negotiator Douglas McKalip, and during the hearing McKalip brought up the issue of Chinese restrictions on urea and similar products.

U.S. legislation to subsidize semiconductor production has passed the Senate, and will now go the House. A key provision imposes limits on production in China for subsidy recipients.

Chinese leaders met with the Indonesian President recently and vowed to further deepen cooperation in trade and investment, energy, mining, agriculture, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Pineapples and palm oil are among the commodities for which trade could be boosted by this visit.

At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing today, U.S. Senators offered their views on, and asked Biden administration officials about, issues such as China's trade measures against Lithuania and telecoms competition around the world.

China's Customs agency announced that it would suspend beef imports from a U.S. company due to the detection of an illegal substance, an outstanding issue that the United States and China were supposed to work on under the Phase One Agreement.