CTM Weekly Newsletter

Simon Lester -

This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

In China:

  • Data on Xinjiang exports to the United States
  • MOFCOM comments on trade issues with the U.S., Australia, Russia and other countries
  • Guidelines on enhancing the effectiveness and quality of state investments
  • Efforts to encourage foreign investment in China
  • Trade talks with ASEAN, and on RMB arrangements with Brazil

In the U.S.:

  • Restrictions on aluminum imports from Xinjiang
  • Congressional legislation introduced on foreign farmland purchases, economic coercion, and oil sales; hearing on the economic threat from China; and a resolution calling for a Taiwan FTA

In Australia:

  • An Australia-China trade ministers meeting
  • Resumption of Australian coal exports to China

At the WTO:

  • Sixth CTM post on documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO