Members of Congress Continue Push for Funding to Enforce Uyghur Forced Labor Bill
A bipartisan group of members of Congress who head up the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees "requesting expanded funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to vigorously enforce the import restrictions required by
China's Customs Announces Multiple Measures to Prevent Various Disease Outbreaks
Recently, China's Customs announced that it would suspend imports of cloven-hoofed animals and related products from Indonesia due to foot-and-month disease, and impose certain sanitary requirements on containers and cargos from some African countries.
Process for U.S.-Led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Launched; China Warns of "Supply Chain Crisis"; Countries Likely to Engage with Both
The United States and a dozen countries in the Indo-Pacific region officially launched "the process to establish the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity" (IPEF) today. Among other things, the framework covers digital rules, labor and environmental standards, and supply chain efforts. At this point in time,
Taiwan Will Not Be Part of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, For Now
As the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), an initiative of the Biden administration to counter China's influence in the Indo-Pacific region, is under development, there has been a question about whether Taiwan will be part of it. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan
Canada Excludes Huawei, ZTE from 5G Market
After a long period of internal debate and discussion, Canada announced last week that it would exclude the Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE from its 5G market and the broad range of products connected to it.
CTM Weekly Newsletter
This past week, CTM covered the following issues:
* Chinese IP court rulings on foreign trademarks, a Chinese antitrust investigation, Chinese foreign investment data and challenges against a Chinese government expropriation of a foreign investment, remarks by Chinese political leaders on trade issues, and Chinese objections to U.S. competitiveness legislation.
Chinese IP Courts Defend Foreign Trademarks
China's intellectual property (IP) courts recently ruled in several cases that Chinese companies infringed foreign companies' trademarks or engaged in unfair competition. The foreign trademarks involved include German brand Wilo, Dutch company Atlas Copco, and Japanese company NOK. In one case, the IP Court agreed with the