At a WTO Committee on Market Access meeting this year, Guatemala once again raised a concern with Chinese restrictions on its coffee exports.

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods yesterday, China raised concerns about tariff modifications being undertaken by the EU (and the UK), as well as two new pieces of legislation under consideration in the EU.

In reaction to recent moves by the EU and the UK to invoke the tariff schedule modification provisions in GATT Article XXVIII, China has requested technical discussions at the WTO on the proper use of this procedure.

At the meeting of the WTO's Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee last week, governments discussed overcapacity, a level playing field, transnational subsidies, and China's "First Set of Key Technology Equipment" program.

China has submitted comments on the EU's proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, accusing Brussels of "double standards" and "discriminatory" policies that potentially violate several WTO obligations.

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods in late November, for which the minutes were recently circulated, China raised a new concern with the EU's proposed steel tariff rate quota measure, and several previously raised measures were discussed as well.

After China's parliamentary session this month, Beijing released the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (FYP) for National Economic and Social Development, signaling a fundamental shift in its global economic engagement. The new blueprint prioritizes "voluntary" and "unilateral" opening on China’s own