On August 20, China’s Standing Committee of National People’s Congress passed the nation’s first Personal Information Protection Law (个人信息保护法) (PIPL) (informal English version here). It is modeled after the Europe Union's General Data Protection Regulation, and has been called by some western media “one of

The European Commission released [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2294] its "39th Annual Report [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2021/august/tradoc_159782.PDF] from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the EU’s Anti-Dumping, Anti-Subsidy

On August 26, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade met with industry representatives to discuss "Expanding membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?

The WTO has just posted a July 13 communication [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/G/SCM/N372CHN.pdf&Open=True] from China entitled "New and Full Notification Pursuant To Article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994 and Article 25 of the Agreement

On August 16, a group of solar manufacturers called the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC) filed anti-circumvention petitions related to AD/CVD orders that had been imposed in December 2012 on photovoltaic cells from China. The petitions relate to imports from Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam,

During an August 23 press conference [http://www.scio.gov.cn/xwfbh/xwbfbh/wqfbh/44687/46624/wz46626/Document/1710966/1710966.htm] (link in Chinese) held by the State Council Information Office, officials from China’s Ministry of Commerce expressed interest in pursuing free trade agreements, as they referred to foreign

At the WTO General Council meeting of May 5-6, 2021, a paper on Joint Statement Initiatives [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/GC/W819R1.pdf&Open=True] (JSIs) that criticizes a plurilateral approach to negotiations was on the agenda. The paper was