With a Section 301 investigation on excess capacity likely to be completed soon, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office (USTR) announced a joint statement with a number of other economies to address excess capacity in five specific manufacturing sectors.

At a recent WTO committee meeting, China raised concerns about U.S. kiwifruit standards, proposed EU industrial and cybersecurity measures, Indonesian telecommunication equipment certification, and Korean regulations on traditional Chinese medicine products.

In advance of a trip to China this week by European Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, the leaders of France and Germany have issued a "non-paper" that was likely designed in part to strengthen the hand of EU negotiators.

In recent weeks, there was a push in Congress to pass legislation restricting sales of Chinese "connected vehicles" in the U.S. market, but progress seems to have stalled for now.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In relation to the Trump-Xi meetings, the Trump administration and the Chinese government released details of the trade talks; the two sides published details of how the U.S.-China Board of Trade will work to provide tariff liberalization on a

At a press conference during a meeting of G20 trade ministers in Milwaukee today, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer commented on several China-related trade issues.

At a hearing today, a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) pressed lawyers for both plaintiffs and the U.S. government about their arguments related to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration in response to concerns about trade in goods made using forced labor.