Earlier this month, trade officials from China and Japan held their first export control dialogue after a communication mechanism was first created last fall. But a new proposal in Japan that is currently under consideration will test the functionality of the mechanism.

Last Friday, top level trade officials talked about the progress of China's trade talks in 2023, including the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), and highlighted that Beijing will add more "high-standard" rules on telecommunication and government

Today Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with a Japanese business delegation that visited Beijing, the first visit of this kind since 2019. In the backdrop, bilateral trade has chilled in recent years, but both governments have agreed to work together on a few issues that may help mitigate disagreements and

After a recent Chinese court ruling that sets a global license rate for 4G and 5G phones, Chinese phone maker OPPO and Finnish electronics company Nokia signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement, ending years-long legal disputes over patents for 4G and 5G technologies.

Yesterday, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced an expiry review of the anti-dumping measures on imports of chemical orthodichlorobenzene (ODCB) from India and Japan.

With China's new export controls on graphite entering into force last December, data shows that the controls have had a significant impact on exports of natural graphite that had not been subject to export controls in the past. By contrast, the impact of the controls on artificial graphite

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) recently issued a ruling in Advanced Codec Technologies (ACT) v. OPPO, setting the license fees in China for six standard essential patents (SEPs) related to an audio coding standard. The Court ordered OPPO to pay 15.4 million yuan (approximately US$