This past week, CTM covered the following issues. The Chinese government formally implemented key commitments from its recent trade truce with the United States, issuing a series of official documents to de-escalate economic tensions. The measures include the suspension of export controls on some items, and the lifting of sanitary

Last week, the U.S. updated its critical mineral list. This piece describes these recent updates, comparing the critical and strategic minerals identified by the United States and China, and indicating which materials are currently subject to China's export control regime. Several years ago, the U.S. Department

In preparation for the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting of November 17, Belgium has raised the issue of "Chinese Anti-Dumping Investigation on European Pork – The Need for a Level Playing Field," and called for a "coordinated and united approach" in response to the investigation.

China published its first dedicated policy framework for promoting green trade, aiming to align trade growth with the country’s carbon neutrality goals and strengthen its international influence on low-carbon standards.

The review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is getting underway, with all three countries gathering input from stakeholders. One key demand the governments are hearing from certain industry groups is that Chinese trade and investment should be further restricted.

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has announced a one-year suspension of its controversial "Affiliates Rule," which automatically subjected any entity at least 50% owned by a blacklisted company to the same export restrictions. Simultaneously, the agency removed one Chinese firm and

The Canadian government is gathering stakeholder input on next year's USMCA review, and as part of that process there have been some detailed discussions about how China factors into the considerations.