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.

At the meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body on April 25, a panel was established to hear China's complaint regarding EU countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles.

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

A petition alleging that imported chassis from Mexico and Thailand have been subsidized and are causing injury to a U.S. industry is the latest U.S. CVD case to cite Chinese "transnational subsidies."

China has filed a panel request in its WTO challenge to the EU's countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles.

On Friday, the European Commission announced that it had imposed countervailing duties on imports of aluminum road wheels from Morocco, with one of the subsidies at issue having been provided through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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"