In early September, we wrote about [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/to-appeal-or-not-to-appeal-the-question-facing-china-in-the-wto-dispute-on-solar-safeguards/] the choice faced by China in relation to a WTO panel report which rejected China's WTO complaint against a U.S. safeguard measure on certain solar products. Would China appeal the report, or let it be adopted?

Yesterday, the WTO announced [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/DS/598-6.pdf&Open=True] that on September 3, the WTO Director-General had composed the panel in the WTO complaint brought by Australia [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/australias-wto-complaint-against-chinas-ad-cvd-determinations-on-barley/] against China's AD/

On September 2, the WTO circulated a panel report [https://www.worldtradelaw.net/document.php?id=reports/wtopanels/us-photovoltaicsafeguards(panel).pdf] in a complaint brought by China against U.S. safeguard measures on certain solar products, in which the panel found that the U.S. measures do not violate WTO

At the August 30 DSB meeting, a WTO panel was established [https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/dsb_30aug21_e.htm] to hear China's request that it be found in compliance in a dispute brought by the United States against the administration of tariff-rate quotes

In a WTO complaint [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/australias-wto-complaint-against-chinas-ad-cvd-determinations-on-barley/] by Australia against Chinese AD/CVD measures imposed on Australian barley (DS598), China and Australia have agreed to procedures [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/DS/598-5.pdf&Open=True] for using an alternative

As we described here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/new-developments-in-wto-dispute-on-trqs-on-agricultural-products/] , on July 15 there were two developments in the U.S.-China WTO dispute related to TRQs on certain agricultural products (DS517): 1) the United States requested authorization [https://www.worldtradelaw.net/document.php?id=rr/ds517-19-rr.pdf] from the WTO&

In September of 2019, Canada requested WTO consultations with China in relation to Chinese measures restricting imports of canola seeds from Canada. Consultations were held in October of that year but failed to resolve the dispute. In June of 2021, Canada revived the dispute by requesting a panel. China blocked