CTM Weekly Newsletter

Simon Lester -

This past week, CTM covered the following issues:

In China:

  • Legal dispute involving the first application of China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law
  • Antitrust review of BlackRock-CK Hutchison deal
  • China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Economic and Trade Ministers' Meeting
  • Services trade data
  • Update on anti-dumping investigation on EU brandy 
  • New SPS actions in March

In the U.S.:

  • New "reciprocal" tariffs
  • Hearing on proposed remedies in Section 301 investigation on shipbuilding 
  • USTR report on foreign trade barriers

At the WTO:

  • U.S. written submission in U.S. IRA subsidies dispute
  • Discussion of Canadian and U.S. trade restrictive measures