Recently, China announced its first industrial competitiveness investigation on medical CT ball tube imports. As the trade war between the U.S. and China intensifies, the deployment of this new tool signals a deeper effort to evaluate vulnerabilities within China's key industries.

In retaliation for the U.S. “reciprocal” tariffs, China has continued its multi-pronged approach to dealing with U.S. unilateral trade measures, encompassing a WTO challenge, retaliatory tariffs, expanded sanction lists, export controls, antitrust review, and other measures. Unlike past instances, however, this time China announced “reciprocal” retaliatory tariffs, with