Last week, the U.S. and EU both took new anti-dumping/countervailing duty actions against Chinese imports, with the U.S. Department of Commerce initiating investigations against plywood from China, and the European Commission imposing duties on imports of vanillin from China.

Last week, European Union trade chief Maros Šefčovič and Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met in France and made progress on the EU anti-subsidy case on Chinese EVs, China's anti-dumping case on EU brandy, and China's rare earth export control policies, according to officials from China&

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.

In a recent preliminary determination, the U.S. Commerce Department has made a finding that transnational subsidies exist in a case involving a Chinese manufacturer that invested in Cambodia.

Yesterday, the European Commission started an anti-dumping investigation on imports of tyres for passenger cars and light lorries from China.

In a decision issued earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce made a preliminary determination in a countervailing duty (CVD) case involving imports of processed graphite from China, an input used in battery production.

Last Friday, the European Commission imposed countervailing duties on imports of mobile access equipment (MAE) from China, following an earlier imposition of anti-dumping duties, and mirroring similar actions by the U.S. several years ago.