The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing [https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/09/14/2021/nomination-hearing] today in which it considered the nominations of Alan Estevez and Thea Kendler for key positions at the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce

On August 16, a group of solar manufacturers 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 petitions relate to imports from Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam, and allege

The U.S. Commerce Department has preliminarily determined [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 producers and exporters of certain mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from China (case C-570-140). As explained in the Decision Memorandum [https://enforcement.trade.gov/

In a July 12 letter [http://docs.chinatrademonitor.com/mccaul-ymtc.pdf] to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) argued that Chinese semiconductor maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YMTC) should be included on the Commerce Department's Entity List [https://www.bis.doc.