At an event at the Council on Foreign Relations today, when asked about the U.S. position on international negotiations on digital trade rules, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai offered her perspective on Chinese data regulation.

At the October 27 meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, for which the minutes were recently circulated, there were criticisms by China of other Members' countervailing duty practices (including the recent EU action on electric vehicles), and criticisms by other Member of China&

Pursuant to Article 25.11 of the SCM Agreement, China recently provided to the WTO its semi-annual report of its countervailing duty actions, covering the period July 1 – December 31, 2023.

At the WTO SPS Committee meeting held on July 12-14, 2023, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, there were discussions of a number of SPS measures imposed by China.

A recent meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures discussed various Chinese subsidy notifications. In addition, the U.S. asked some detailed questions this week about China's most recent notification.

At a recent WTO Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures meeting, Japan brought up previously raised issues related to office device standards and China's procurement law, but China argued that this committee was not the appropriate place to discuss them.

At a WTO Committee on Rules of Origin meeting, China presented its study of the utilization of tariff preferences by least developed countries (LDCs), and other WTO Members offered their reactions.