Grouper fish is the latest source of a trade spat between mainland China and Taiwan. If the issues are not resolved bilaterally, Taiwan could raise them at the World Trade Organization.

On June 10, the U.S. Treasury Department issued its biannual report to Congress on "Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States." China was not found to be a currency manipulator, but was placed on a "monitoring list."

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last week would restrict banks from doing business with entities that operate in Xinjiang and other regions where human rights abuses occur.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * Details on a Chinese summit focused on multinational companies, Chinese foreign ministry cooperation meetings with Central Asian countries, various China Customs announcements, and apps found to violate the law. * U.S. decisions on suspending trade remedy tariffs on solar panels and on

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently met with high level officials of five Central Asian countries, and discussed further cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), finance, trade, energy, and other areas, as well as railways connecting China and Europe.

At a U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing today on U.S.-China Competition in Global Supply Chains, there was a discussion of the reasons for China's rise in rare earth element production, as well as the current state of central government involvement in that

Yesterday, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a Temporary Denial Order (TDO) suspending the export privileges of three U.S.-based companies for 180 days for exporting controlled items to China without authorization.