Last week, China filed its first ever WTO complaint against India, targeting subsidies in the battery and auto sectors.

A WTO panel has been composed to hear China's complaint regarding EU countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles.

This week, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and a number of other agencies published new rules on export license requirements for electric vehicles (EVs), marking the latest effort to regulate its booming auto exports, and perhaps also to avoid trade tensions.

At last week's press conference, the spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) defended its recent anti-dumping duties on European pork and other products, accused the EU of misusing trade remedies against Chinese goods, while simultaneously calling for dialogue and cooperation with the European Union.

In the midst of a Canadian government trade mission to China, several Canadian federal and provincial agriculture ministers weighed in on Canada-China trade disputes.

In its third party submission in the WTO complaint brought by China against Türkiye's EV duties and related measures, the U.S. has cited China's "non-market industrial policy measures" and "excess capacity" in support of Türkiye's legal defenses.

Last week, European Union trade chief Maros Šefčovič and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met in France and made progress on the EU anti-subsidy case on Chinese EVs, China's anti-dumping case on EU brandy, and China's rare earth export control policies, according to officials from China&