At the EU trade ministers' meeting yesterday in Denmark, U.S. trade negotiators visited and tried to push their trade talks along. As part of this meeting, several issues related to trade with China came up.

Following the Ninth Commission Meeting of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which was held in Australia, Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell was asked repeatedly about the chances for China and Taiwan to join the pact, and his deflection of the questions suggests that these applications are

Following the lead of the EU and the U.S., Australia is considering a change to its countervailing duty laws that would allow it to target so-called "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies, which are subsidies provided by one government to a company in another territory.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In international negotiations, China and the Republic of the Congo signed an early harvest agreement on trade, with China granting tariff-free treatment to goods from the African country; and China and Georgia formally concluded negotiations to upgrade their Free Trade Agreement. Mounting

In an ongoing countervailing duty investigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the governments of both China and Cambodia are trying to convince Commerce that WTO law and U.S. law do not allow for countervailing duties to be imposed on the basis of subsidies provided by a government

In a recently released report, researchers at AidData have offered a number of insights into Chinese lending, including the following points: This lending has become more opaque in recent years; it does not go exclusively to developing countries; and the total amounts involved are larger than previously understood but have

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has released its annual report to Congress, with recommendations as to how the U.S. government should respond to various concerns about China through supply chain resilience, investment screening, trade remedies, and other measures.