In recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Commerce has made preliminary anti-dumping / countervailing duty (AD/CVD) determinations on van-type trailers and subassemblies from China.

In a submission as part of the remedy phase of a U.S. safeguards investigation into imports of quartz surface products, the Chinese government argued for exclusion of Chinese products from any remedy.

The Government of New Zealand has begun a safeguards investigation of certain aluminum extrusion products. The investigation will examine global imports, but is likely to focus heavily on imports from China.

Earlier this year, Australia initiated a safeguards investigation on fabricated structural steel ("FSS"), with Chinese products as one of the main sources of imports.

A new academic paper examines how China uses anti-dumping investigations as a retaliatory response to anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations it faces in other countries, focusing on the example of China's pork investigation in flipping Spain's vote in the EU electric vehicle case.

Following up on earlier anti-dumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) cases against imports of Chinese solar products, both from China itself and from Chinese companies operating in various third countries, the U.S. solar industry has now accused Chinese companies of circumventing existing AD/CVD cases by selling through Ethiopia.

In the WTO dispute brought by China against EU countervailing duties on Chinese EVs, the U.S. third party submission highlights a few key legal issues in the dispute.