The Trump administration has filed its response to a request for a preliminary injunction in a case involving the Department of Defense's decision to designate a Chinese biotech company as a "Chinese Military Company."

At a WTO Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures meeting held in late April, there was a discussion of China's latest subsidy notifications that offered insights into the broad disagreement between China and the U.S. on Chinese subsidies.

In a legal opinion issued last week, the U.S. Department of Justice declared that as a result of the change in ownership of the U.S. version of the TikTok app, a 2022 law banning TikTok on government devices no longer applies.

Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), along with several colleagues, sent a letter to President Trump urging him to issue an Executive Order prohibiting seafood harvested by Chinese-linked vessels or processed in China from entering

Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on China and Congressman George Whitesides (D-CA) have sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urging him not to authorize American purchases of memory chips from Chinese companies.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. On July 10, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the General Administration of Customs (GACC) issued a joint announcement imposing an immediate, temporary export ban on helium to protect the domestic industry from severe global supply disruptions. Last month, a Chinese

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer gave a brief overview of his view of the current trade situation with rare earths, as well as a preview of the planned meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi in September.