During a meeting with WTO Director-General Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala yesterday, China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao called for the World Trade Organization to strengthen its oversight of unilateral tariffs and accelerate reforms.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today to consider the nomination of Joseph Barloon to be the Deputy United States Trade Representative in Geneva and the U.S. Ambassador to the WTO, with questions about the Trump administration's approach to China in the WTO as one issue

At the WTO's Committee on Market Access meeting held on May 13-14, there were discussions of the recent U.S. tariffs, as well as allegations about Chinese restrictions on imports of coffee beans and macadamia nuts.

In a communication related to an upcoming General Council meeting, China has laid out its "Stability, Development and Reform" agenda for the WTO. The statement is clearly intended as a response to recent trade actions taken by the Trump administration, and could lead to a contentious discussion at

According to a Geneva-based trade official, at yesterday's meeting of the WTO's Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee, several issues related to Chinese subsidies/countervailing duties and Chinese concerns with other countries' subsidies/countervailing duties were discussed.

At the meeting of the WTO's Committee on Market Access on November 19 and 20, 2024, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, WTO Members discussed China's Export Control Law and "restrictions on trade in strategic products."

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods today, China proposed a discussion of the April 2 "reciprocal tariffs" announced by the Trump administration, as well as additional U.S. tariff actions.