The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing [https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-lisa-w-wang-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-commerce-vice-jeffrey-kessler] 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

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and 17 of his Republican colleagues have introduced legislation [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2587/text] (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

In recent years, the United States has pushed [https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/development-dimension-what-do-about-differential-treatment-trade] 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