U.S. solar manufacturers have filed new antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petitions on solar products from India, Indonesia, and Laos, with one of the allegations being that Chinese companies previously producing in China, and then later in four Southeast Asian nations, have now shifted production to Indonesia and

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced that it has initiated two new investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to determine the effects on U.S. national security of imports of polysilicon and unmanned aircraft systems (drones).

In opinions issued in recent weeks, the U.S. Court of International Trade sustained two Commerce Department determinations on circumvention of anti-dumping/countervailing duties on Chinese solar products, but remanded one to the Commerce Department for reconsideration.

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce made its first determinations involving transnational subsidies under new regulations that allow these subsidies to be countervailed, in linked cases on solar products from four Southeast Asian countries. These determinations could lead to litigation in U.S. courts or at the WTO on

China has filed a request for consultations with Canada at the WTO related to Canada's potential tariffs on batteries and battery parts, semiconductors, solar products, and critical minerals, adding to its existing WTO dispute on Canadian tariffs on Chinese imports.

China’s Ministry of Commerce provided some updates on several trade remedy cases in recent weeks. In addition, there is an indication that it may start trade remedy investigations on U.S. chips.

Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced tariff increases under Section 301 for imports of certain tungsten products, wafers, and polysilicon from China.