Today, China's Ministry of Commerce expanded its dual-use item list for export control purposes, by adding rare earths, rare earth-related technologies, raw materials, alloys, and processing equipment to the list, further tightening its export controls over the rare earth supply chain. New export controls According to MOFCOM'

China made a big announcement recently about giving up developing country status in WTO negotiations going forward, but the U.S. reacted with skepticism at a recent meeting.

Yesterday, China's top envoy to the World Trade Organization (WTO) accused the United States of disrupting global supply chains and using "power-based" trade policies that are eroding the rules-based multilateral system. The U.S. delegation pushed back and accused China of "incentiviz[ing] massive economic

The EU is moving forward with new trade restrictions on steel imports, which are likely to aggravate trade tensions with China and other countries.

Taiwan issued its first-ever nationwide export controls in late September, which were then swiftly reversed. Nonetheless, the move is still significant, as it signals an effort by Taipei to leverage its dominance in the semiconductor industry for political aims.

As part of an interview at the Economic Club of New York, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer touched on a number of key issues in China-U.S. trade relations, including rare earth export controls, a focus on trade in non-sensitive products, cultural aspects of negotiations, and trans-shipment.

Trade friction is escalating between China and Mexico. Following the opening of a new investigation into the Mexican government's trade practices, China's Ministry of Commerce has now issued a rebuke against rising trade remedy investigations into Chinese goods, characterizing this trend as a sign that Mexico