At the meeting of the WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures on October 28, 2025, for which the minutes were recently circulated, the U.S. pressed China on more details of subsidies provided as part of its "First Set Technology Equipment Programme."

According to a Geneva-based trade official, at yesterday's meeting of the WTO's Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee, several issues related to Chinese subsidies/countervailing duties and Chinese concerns with other countries' subsidies/countervailing duties were discussed.

At the WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures meeting of October 28, 2024, for which the minutes were recently circulated, China raised concerns related to the EU's CVD investigation against Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and Morocco brought up an EU investigation relating to "transnational subsidies"

At the WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures meeting of October 28, 2024, for which the minutes were recently circulated, issues related to the treatment of transnational subsidies and weak labor rights and other protections in new U.S. countervailing duty regulations were considered.

At the meeting of the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) earlier this week, China and other WTO members debated the issue of capacity/overcapacity, and the chair expressed concern with the level of compliance by WTO Members with their subsidy notification requirements.

At two recent meetings of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, China raised a number of concerns with the countervailing duty investigations and practices of other WTO Members, as well as criticizing U.S. subsidies to the semiconductor industry; and several Members criticized China's

A recent meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures discussed the issue of overcapacity, with several WTO Members criticizing Chinese subsidies and their impact on capacity, and China offering responses.