In two recent media appearances, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was asked about the upcoming visit of President Xi Jinping to the United States.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China’s judicial system has stepped into a high-stakes legal battle over global semiconductor supply chains, freezing up to $300 million in domestic assets belonging to Dutch chipmaker Nexperia. As part of China's ongoing foreign trade national security investigation

At today's press conference, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce launched a defense of its foreign trade position, pushing back against U.S. claims of economic imbalance, threatening retaliation against France over a new anti-fast-fashion law, and warning the European Union against using

Australia's Productivity Commission has issued an interim report in a safeguard investigation on imports of fabricated structural steel, concluding that the increase in imports was not high enough to justify trade restrictions.

At a European Parliament International Trade Committee meeting yesterday, there were discussions of both the broader EU trade agenda in relation to China and specific details of an OECD report on subsidies.

As part of China's ongoing foreign trade national security investigation targeting imported printing and copying office equipment pre-installed with foreign-developed software, Beijing has now entered the evidence-gathering phase and issued an interested-party questionnaire.

At the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Asheville, North Carolina this week, the Trump administration continued to highlight its concerns with China's trade surplus, although no resolution was immediately apparent.