This past week, CTM covered the following issues: In China: * China’s policy package to stabilize foreign investment * Letter to USTR * Crack down on malicious trademark registration  In the U.S.: * Trump administration foreign investment policy memo * Section 232 investigation on copper * Section 301 investigation on Chinese shipbuilding * Congressional hearing

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a nomination hearing today for several Trump administration officials, including the nomination of Jeffrey Kessler for Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security. If confirmed, Kessler will play a key role in a number of policy areas affecting trade

Yesterday, President Donald Trump directed the Secretary of Commerce to initiate a Section 232 investigation of copper imports, involving a review of whether these imports threaten to impair national security.

At a House Ways and Means trade subcommittee hearing today on "American Trade Enforcement Priorities," former Trump and Biden administration officials who testified both criticized China's non-market practices, but focused on different approaches to addressing them.

A China-Türkiye WTO dispute over EV and automobile tariffs is proceeding to the next stage, with a panel now established to hear the dispute.

Last Friday, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office took the next step towards a remedy for its findings that China's "targeted dominance" of the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors "is unreasonable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce, and is therefore 'actionable&

On Friday, President Trump issued a memorandum that outlines a new policy on foreign investment, with investment from China featuring prominently. The policy seeks to encourage investment from allies and partners, and indicates that it will scrutinize carefully investments from China and other "foreign adversaries." But the policy