WTO
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EU Requests Information from China on Judicial Decisions and Regulations Relating To Patents
In a communication posted on the WTO's website on July 6, 2021 (IP/C/W/682
[https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/IP/C/W682.pdf&Open=True]
), the EU requested information from China pursuant to Article 63.3 of the
TRIPS
Chinese Measures and Trade Concerns Discussed at the February 2021 TBT Committee Meeting
At the meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade held on
February 24-26, 2021, a number of WTO Members raised “specific trade concerns”
about particular Chinese measures, and China voiced its concerns with measures
of other Members. The official minutes of that meeting are now available
Two Recent Biden Administration Actions Against Forced Labor in Fishing
Last week, the Biden administration took two separate actions related to forced
labor in commercial fishing. The first action was by U.S. Customs and Border
Patrol (CBP), and directly targeted Chinese practices with an import ban on
certain products tied to a particular Chinese company. The second action was
China Updates WTO on Its Countervailing Duty Actions
Pursuant to Article 25.11 of the SCM Agreement, China recently provided its
semi-annual report of its countervailing duty actions, covering the period July
1 – December 31, 2020 (WTO document G/SCM/N/371/CHN
[https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/G/SCM/N371CHN.pdf&
Chinese Measures and Trade Concerns Discussed at the October 2020 TBT Committee Meeting
At the meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade held on
October 28-29, 2020, a number of WTO Members raised “specific trade concerns”
about particular Chinese measures, and China voiced its concerns with measures
of other Members. The official minutes of that meeting are now available
China’s Questions at Indonesia’s WTO Trade Policy Review
The WTO conducted its trade policy review for Indonesia
[https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp501_e.htm] on December 9 and 11.
The minutes of the meeting
[https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/TPR/M401.pdf&Open=True]
and
U.S. Question on "Special and Differential Treatment" for Macao at the WTO Trade Policy Review
In recent years, the United States has pushed
[https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/development-dimension-what-do-about-differential-treatment-trade]
to bring new disciplines to the the area of special and differential treatment
for developing countries at the WTO, and to the practice of self-declaration of
developing country status. As part of Macao’s recent trade