At an event today in Berlin, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade Bernd Lange offered thoughts on the upcoming EU-China trade discussions, and well as the relationship more broadly.

In two recent media appearances, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was asked about the upcoming visit of President Xi Jinping to the United States.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China’s judicial system has stepped into a high-stakes legal battle over global semiconductor supply chains, freezing up to $300 million in domestic assets belonging to Dutch chipmaker Nexperia. As part of China's ongoing foreign trade national security investigation

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.