Developing Country Status

At an event hosted by the Peterson Institute today, World Bank President David Malpass offered some thoughts on the role of World Bank lending to China, an issue on which he previously weighed in as a Treasury Department official during the Trump administration.

In a webinar hosted by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute on "Two Decades of China in the WTO: The View from China," Manjiao Chi, professor and founding director of the Center for International Economic Law and Policy at the Law School of the University of International Business and Economics,

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on the nominations of two Commerce Department officials: Maria Louise Lago as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Lisa Wang as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance. The questions from the Senators on the Committee touched on a

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and 17 of his Republican colleagues have introduced legislation (S.2587) that would put an end to assistance to China by multilateral development banks. The logic behind the legislation is that China has grown enough economically that it no longer requires lending from development banks. As

In recent years, the United States has pushed to bring new disciplines to the the area of special and differential treatment for developing countries at the WTO, and to the practice of self-declaration of developing country status. As part of Macao’s recent trade policy review at the WTO,