CTM Weekly Newsletter

Simon Lester -

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