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Republican Senators Urge Commerce Department to Put Chinese Artificial Intelligence Companies on Entity List
Five Republican Senators – Tom Cotton (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Bill Hagerty
(R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) -- sent a letter
[https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-call-on-secretary-raimondo-to-blacklist-companies-that-provide-ai-technology-to-the-chinese-military]
to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on November 15, arguing that the U.S.
government "has done little to
U.S. Senate Hearing on Two Commerce Department Nominees Raises Various U.S.-China Trade Issues
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing
[https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-lisa-w-wang-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-commerce-vice-jeffrey-kessler]
today on the nominations of two Commerce Department officials: Maria Louise Lago
as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Lisa Wang as
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance. The questions
from the
USDOC Rejects U.S. Solar Industry Anti-Circumvention Petition; Industry Considers Next Steps
As we reported here
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-solar-companies-argue-that-chinese-economic-coercion-justifies-keeping-identities-secret-in-ad-cvd-proceeding/]
, on August 16 a group of U.S. companies called the American Solar Manufacturers
Against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC) filed anti-circumvention petitions
related to AD/CVD orders that had been imposed in December 2012 on photovoltaic
cells from China. The Commerce Department
Public Comments Received in Section 232 Investigation on Neodymium Magnets
As we reported here
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-initiates-section-232-investigation-on-neodymium-magnets/]
, in late September the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security
(BIS) initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act
of
1962 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1862] "to determine the effects
on
Commerce Department Makes Final Affirmative CVD Finding on Mobile Access Equipment from China, and Discusses Currency Undervaluation and CCP; ITC Finds Threat of Injury
In July, we reported
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-makes-preliminary-affirmative-cvd-finding-on-mobile-access-equipment-china-but-says-currency-undervaluation-did-not-provide-a-countervailable-benefit/]
on the Commerce Department's preliminary determination
[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/30/2021-16332/certain-mobile-access-equipment-and-subassemblies-thereof-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china]
that countervailable subsidies are being provided to pro
Domestic Industry Points to Changed Treasury Department Conclusions on Currency Issues in Review of Solar CVD
As we reported here
[https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/review-of-solar-cvd-looks-at-chinese-currency-undervaluation/]
, in an administrative review for a U.S. countervailing duty order for imports
of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China during 2019, the domestic
industry alleged that Chinese currency undervaluation in this period constitutes
a countervailable subsidy. The Department of Commerce
GOP Members of Congress Call On Biden Administration To Crack Down On Sharing Critical U.S. Technology With China
The Republican-led China Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a
letter
[https://mcusercontent.com/723925654e4ab8fdea83f0a9c/files/cabefc23-b371-c24c-1efa-2f85711f7916/CTF_Letter_to_Sec._Raimondo_on_Export_Control_Actions.pdf]
to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo calling for a crack down on sharing critical
U.S. technology with China, and
