At the WTO Committee on Safeguards meeting of October 28, 2024, for which the minutes were recently circulated, China raised an issue related to the notification of Colombia's safeguard measure on wire rods and also criticized Indonesia's safeguards practices.

At the WTO Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices meeting of October 30, 2024, for which the minutes were recently circulated, the EU and Japan raised concerns with various Chinese anti-dumping measures, and China criticized UK practices related to the Brexit transition.

A U.S. countervailing duty investigation on file folders from Cambodia is the latest trade remedy investigation to test out the new regulations allowing the Commerce Department to consider transnational subsidy programs as part of its assessment of foreign subsidies.

Earlier this week, the American Active Anode Material Producers, representing U.S. producers of graphite, filed a petition for the imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of active anode material (i.e. processed graphite) from China.

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, Australia indicated that it had completed implementation of a WTO dispute brought by China related to anti-dumping measures on several products.

The U.S. Department of Commerce proceedings targeting Chinese companies producing solar panels in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are continuing, with preliminary affirmative determinations in the anti-dumping duty investigations of Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells Whether or Not Assembled into Modules issued last week.

In a ruling today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed appeals of an EU General Court ruling that the European Commission's treatment of subsidies provided by third country governments – so-called "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies – as countervailable was permitted under EU