This past week, CTM covered the following issues: In China: * Threats of countermeasures against U.S. lawsuits related to COVID-19 * New policy measures to stabilize economy * Updates on antitrust review of CK Hutchison port deal * Discussion of international legal basis for China’s retaliation against U.S. with the WTO

In an interview yesterday with Fox News, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer pushed back on the idea that President Trump's trade agenda was all about China, and instead emphasized the administration's broader concerns with trade deficits and U.S. manufacturing.

Last month, we wrote about a lawsuit against some of the Trump administration's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which targeted the tariffs imposed in February and March on Chinese imports. Since then, lawsuits have proliferated against these tariffs and the "reciprocal"

According to a Geneva-based trade official, at yesterday's meeting of the WTO's Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Committee, several issues related to Chinese subsidies/countervailing duties and Chinese concerns with other countries' subsidies/countervailing duties were discussed.

Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its Special 301 report "on the adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights," repeating many of its long-standing complaints about Chinese policies and practices in this area.

At the meeting of the WTO's Committee on Market Access on November 19 and 20, 2024, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, WTO Members discussed China's Export Control Law and "restrictions on trade in strategic products."

In a decision last week, the U.S. Court of International Trade found that a Chinese solar company does have standing to sue for a U.S. government decision that excludes its products due to forced labor concerns, but said that one of the claims was untimely.