China Issues Rules for Fruit Imports from Thailand and Laos
China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) recently issued notices to
update rules for fruit imports from Thailand and allow imported passion fruits
from Laos, if they meet the inspection and quarantine requirements.
On September 13, at the sideline of the 7th China-ASEAN Ministerial Conference
on Animal and Plant
Biden Extends National Emergency With Respect to Threat From Securities Investments that Finance Chinese Companies
In a notice posted yesterday
[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/09/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-the-threat-from-securities-investments-that-finance-certain-companies-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/]
, President Biden decided to continue for 1 year
U.S. Agency Releases New Draft List of Critical Minerals Including REEs
The U.S. Geological Survey at the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued the
2021 Draft List of Critical Minerals
[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/09/2021-24488/2021-draft-list-of-critical-minerals]
today. The list is designed to address the concern that the United States is
EU Council President Comments on Comprehensive Agreement on Investment
In a wide-ranging speech
[https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1458134649906122757] today at the
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung State of Europe event, Charles Michel, a Belgian
politician who has served as President of the European Council since 2019 (and
was previously Prime Minister of Belgium), offered some comments on the China
Latest WTO Fisheries Subsidies Negotiating Text Addresses Forced Labor
As we reported
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/two-recent-biden-administration-actions-against-forced-labor-in-fishing/]
in June, on May 26 the Biden administration put forward a proposal
[https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/IssueAreas/Trade%20Organizations/WTO/US.Proposal.Forced.Labor.26May2021.final%5B2%5D.pdf]
in the
Canadian Retail Company Pulls Products Made In China Due to Forced Labor Concerns
In response to a story
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-canadian-brands-forced-labour-1.6236820]
by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Canadian company Reitmans
has pulled certain products from its shelves due to concerns that they were made
in a Chinese factory that used forced labor
Chinese Expert Explains Recent GSP Announcement
We previously reported on the announcement by China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) that it will stop issuing Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) certificates to Chinese goods that are exported to EU members, the United Kingdom, Canada, Turkey, Ukraine and Liechtenstein, effective on December 1, 2021. Some confusion and