China’s Rules on Registering Overseas Food Manufacturers Prompt Concerns over Trade Disruption at WTO
On November 2, China’s Customs agency issued the English version of the Provisions of the People's Republic of China on the Registration and Administration of Overseas Manufacturers of Imported Food. The Chinese version of the rules, 中华人民共和国进口食品境外生产企业注册管理规定, was issued on April 12, 2021 and will take effect
Commerce Department Makes Final Affirmative CVD Finding on Mobile Access Equipment from China, and Discusses Currency Undervaluation and CCP; ITC Finds Threat of Injury
In July, we reported
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-makes-preliminary-affirmative-cvd-finding-on-mobile-access-equipment-china-but-says-currency-undervaluation-did-not-provide-a-countervailable-benefit/]
on the Commerce Department's preliminary determination
[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/30/2021-16332/certain-mobile-
New Paper Considers China's Changing Perspective on the WTO
A new paper [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3958510] by
legal scholar Henry Gao looks at how China’s perspective on the WTO has changed
over the years, from initially viewing it as "the symbol for its aspiration to
integrate into the world economy,"
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