Trade Remedies against China

Following up on her Senate testimony yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo responded to a number of questions related to China trade issues at a House of Representatives hearing today, including on critical minerals, an anti-circumvention inquiry related to Chinese solar panels, and outbound investment screening.

At a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo responded to a number of questions related to China trade issues, including the Section 301 tariff review and an anti-circumvention inquiry related to Chinese solar panels.

The UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has started investigations of imports of fibre optic cables from China, the third "new case" -- i.e., not one that was part of a transition after the UK left the EU -- that the TRA has opened and the second against imports from

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.

Six California companies were ordered by a U.S. District Court Judge to pay $1.83 billion in restitution because of a scheme to conduct sham sales designed to avoid customs duties and inflate the value a Chinese company.

Recently, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the China Trade Cheating Restitution Act to address an issue with the payment to domestic industries of certain anti-dumping duties collected on Chinese imports.

Last week, the European Commission adopted definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of graphite electrodes from China. The duties range from 25.5% to 74.9%.