Last month, the British government issued a "notice of final order" that China-registered Future Technology Devices International Holding Ltd must sell 80.2 percent of Scottish fabless semiconductor firm FTDI, due to national security risks.

At a recent think tank event, economic experts reviewed China's industrial policies and examined the successes and failures of these policies.

The U.S. Department of Commerce proceedings targeting Chinese companies producing solar panels in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are continuing, with preliminary affirmative determinations in the anti-dumping duty investigations of Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells Whether or Not Assembled into Modules issued last week.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * China-Brazil economic agreements * China's sanction measures * U.S. Trade Rep. nominee's views on China trade * Prospects for China PNTR revocation * New entities added to UFLPA list * Estimates of impact of Chinese gallium/germanium export ban * Estimates of impact

In a ruling today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed appeals of an EU General Court ruling that the European Commission's treatment of subsidies provided by third country governments – so-called "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies – as countervailable was permitted under EU

U.S. President-elect Trump's pick of Marco Rubio for Secretary of State has raised questions related to Rubio's sanction status in China, along with broader issues of how these sanctions would apply to sanctioned American government officials.

In a recent report, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey developed a new model to assess how disruptions of critical mineral supplies may affect the U.S. economy. Using the model, they estimated that "there could be a $3.4 billion decrease in U.S. GDP if China