The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a policy change under which a company's status as being Chinese state-sponsored will be considered as part of the patent litigation process.

The latest batch of Trump administration Section 232 investigations is proceeding ahead, with the Chinese government and trade associations making submissions in the hopes of convincing the administration not to impose tariffs on robotics/industrial machinery and medical equipment.

At a Brookings Institution event today, former Biden administration official Peter Harrell and other participants engaged in a conversation about how issues related to China might come up as part of the upcoming USMCA review.

Yesterday, the White House posted the text of trade agreements it signed with Cambodia and Malaysia. Both agreements have a number of provisions that target or have an impact on China in some way. The Cambodia agreement is here and the Malaysia agreement is here. With regard to provisions that

On Friday, USTR initiated a Section 301 investigation of China's compliance with the Phase One trade deal, adding a new element to the broadening U.S.-China trade conflict.

Adding to the list of Canada-China trade conflicts, the Canadian government announced on Friday that it was initiating anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations on imports of truck bodies from China.

This week, economic friction between China and the U.S. continued to deepen. China's Ministry of Commerce issued its 2025 Report on WTO Compliance of the United States, accusing Washington of systematically violating WTO rules and undermining the multilateral trading system. The Trump administration followed through on another