At the November 2024 meeting of the WTO's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, for which the minutes were recently circulated, China raised two new concerns related to European auto regulations, and other Members reiterated old concerns with some Chinese measures, including its Cybersecurity Law.

An electric utility project described by China as being part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has led to international arbitration, as the Chinese company in charge of the project has sued the Laotian government for US$555 million.

CK Hutchison, a Hong Kong company that owns and operates two key Panama ports, as well as many other ports across the globe, has reached an agreement in principle with private equity firm BlackRock to sell a significant portion of its port business.

Today, President Trump amended his previous Executive Order imposing 10% tariffs on all Chinese imports on the basis that "the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ... has subsidized and otherwise incentivized PRC chemical companies to export fentanyl and related precursor chemicals that are used to produce synthetic opioids sold illicitly in

Today, the U.S. Trade Representative delivered President Trump’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda, 2024 Annual Report, and World Trade Organization at Thirty report to Congress, offering a number of comments on U.S. trade relations with China and U.S. views of China in the WTO.

The Panamanian Attorney General has weighed in on the constitutionality of his government's port contract with Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, telling the Supreme Court it is "unconstitutional," and asking the Court "to confirm the unconstitutionality of the contract as a step toward terminating the

On Saturday, President Trump issued an Executive Order instructing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to carry out a Section 232 investigation on whether timber, lumber, and their derivative products (such as paper products, furniture, and cabinetry) are a threat to national security.