Based on affirmative determinations from both the U.S. Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission (USITC), the United States will soon impose anti-dumping duties on certain mobile access equipment (e.g. boom lifts, scissor lifts, and material telehandlers) and subassemblies thereof from China, which will be in addition

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * Chinese IP rulings and judicial interpretations; the Chinese foreign minister's meetings with the foreign ministers of three African countries * A virtual meeting between Xi and Biden and a rundown on stated positions of the two governments on Russian sanctions * A

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) added one Chinese company to the provisional list of companies that fail to comply with U.S. auditing requirements.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently issued a list of products from China that would be excluded from the Section 301 tariffs. In response, Chinese officials called for the elimination of all the Section 301 tariffs.

A recent resolution of a U.S.-UK trade dispute over steel and aluminum tariffs will lead to an audit of the financial records of a Chinese-owned UK steel company, in order to "assess influence from the People’s Republic of China government."

Recently, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the foreign ministers of Zambia, Algeria and Tanzania, with the meetings involving discussions of bilateral economic relations, the Belt and Road Initiative, and Ukraine.

In recent remarks, the Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs referred to the Indo-Pacific Strategy led by the Biden administration as an effort that will "tak[e] the region down the wrong path of fragmentation."