This past week, CTM covered the following issues:
In China:
- Trade remedy investigations and measures
- New additions to the Unreliable Entity List
In the U.S.:
- Confirmation hearings of Scott Bessent, nominee for Secretary of Treasury, and Marco Rubio, nominee for Secretary of State
- Final rule on sales of Chinese "connected vehicles" in U.S. market
- New actions on de minimis trade, non-market practices/state-owned enterprises/standards, counterfeiting and piracy, and forced labor
- New export control rules
- New additions to the export control Entity List and UFLPA Entity List
- Section 301 investigation on shipbuilding, maritime, logistics
- Annual report on China’s WTO compliance
- Proposal for Trump’s China trade policy
Other parts of the world:
- European Commission concludes its first International Procurement Instrument investigation on China’s practice in the medical devices sector
- Update on China’s WTO dispute with U.S. over semiconductor export controls
