As the end of President Biden's term in office nears, over the past week his administration has taken actions in several areas related to trade with China: de minimis trade, non-market practices/state-owned enterprises/standards, counterfeiting and piracy, and forced labor.

Yesterday, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office published a series of policy papers, one of which was entitled "Countering Non-Market Policies and Practices to Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience" and focused on Chinese practices, including economic coercion.

As part of its transition review of EU anti-dumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) measures, the UK's Trade Remedy Authority (TRA) has recommended raising duties on bus and lorry tires from China, with the goal of protecting the UK’s tire retreading industry from injury.

"[E]very sentence in [the Joint Declaration] reads like a description of the US itself."

At a Ministerial meeting in Paris on June 8, the governments of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States put forward a Joint Declaration Against Trade-Related Economic Coercion and Non-Market Policies and Practices.

As part of a summit that took place in Hiroshima over the past several days, the leaders of the G7 countries issued a communiqué that sets out their collective views on a number of issues connected to economic relations with China.

Last week, a U.S. trade agency issued a decision that paves the way for  anti-dumping and countervailing duties to be imposed on snow throwers from China.