Australia's Productivity Commission has issued an interim report in a safeguard investigation on imports of fabricated structural steel, concluding that the increase in imports was not high enough to justify trade restrictions.

At a European Parliament International Trade Committee meeting yesterday, there were discussions of both the broader EU trade agenda in relation to China and specific details of an OECD report on subsidies.

At the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Asheville, North Carolina this week, the Trump administration continued to highlight its concerns with China's trade surplus, although no resolution was immediately apparent.

A bipartisan bill to "direct the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to conduct a comprehensive study of the national and economic security risks foreign adversaries pose to the United States automotive industry" has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

At a WTO meeting earlier this year, China raised concerns about the EU's proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, with the EU providing assurances that it would take into account the trade concerns of other governments.

A recent U.S. court ruling held that the Trump administration's decision to end the de minimis exemption from tariffs for low-value imports was legal.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. Chinese state media launched a four-part commentary series aimed at shaping economic expectations, mounting a robust defense of Beijing’s industrial policy and trade trajectory while signaling key domestic investment priorities for the second half of the year. Chinese antitrust regulators