During a press conference last week, China's Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong offered comments on the upcoming China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue, China's outbound investment, trade disputes with Australia, and the implementation of export controls on gallium and germanium.

Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce announced the extension of the countervailing measures on EU potato starch, maintaining countervailing duties of up to 12.4%. The reasoning of the decision is summarized below.

In recent weeks, China's customs agency released sanitary requirements for fruit imports from Benin, Venezuela, Cambodia, and Zambia, as follow-ups to recent high-level meetings with the leaders of those countries.

The Mexican government announced last month that it will raise tariff rates for a number of products. This tariff increase is applicable to all nations that do not have a trade agreement with Mexico, and China falls into this category. As a result, this move will have an impact on

Over the first half of September, China's customs agency made several announcements that will impact trade in beef and dairy products.

Last week, Beijing announced that it will sanction two U.S. companies -- Northrop Grumman and a Lockheed Martin unit -- over their arms sales to Taiwan. But experts pointed out that what comes next as part of the sanctions is unclear at the moment.

Speaking at an event during the WTO public forum last week, Singapore Management University law professor Henry Gao offered comments on China's industrial policy and argued that the China model cannot be easily replicated in most developing countries.