The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives decided to disclose aggregated data from the Commerce Department on licensing decisions for possible sales to Chinese telecoms company Huawei and semiconductor company SMIC for the six month period from November 2020 to April 2021. These companies are on

Yesterday, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), who are all part of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) [https://www.cecc.gov/], sent a letter [https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=4CCECC26-AC84-49EE-85F6-64FE12376347]

At the confirmation hearing [https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/nominations_-immediately-following-the-business-meeting-102021] yesterday for the Biden administration's nominee for Ambassador to China, long-time diplomat Nicholas Burns [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Nicholas_Burns], trade issues came up several times. Burns mentioned these issues in his opening statement,

Following up on questions he asked Alan Estevez -- the Biden administration's nominee for Under Secretary for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce -- about general export control policies relating to China, the Entity List, and the companies Huawei and Honor during the nomination

Thirteen Republican members of the House of Representatives -- a list of these members is included at the end of this piece -- sent a letter [https://crawford.house.gov/uploadedfiles/scan.pdf] to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai expressing concern about "the growing influence and intensified engagement

Both the U.S. Senate and House are considering legislation that attempts to push Central and Eastern European countries away from using Chinese telecoms equipment such as that of Huawei or ZTE. The Senate bill was just recently introduced; the House bill was introduced in May and  could undergo a

Today the U.S. Senate passed a long-awaited $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, called the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act [https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr3684/BILLS-117hr3684eas.pdf]." One provision in this bill is of particular interest for trade with China, as it requires a report within