On August 6, China's Ministry of Commerce extended its safeguard investigation into beef imports, a move that comes as the government faces a large volume of submissions and complex issues in the case.

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced preliminary anti-dumping duties on canola seed imports from Canada, accusing the Canadian government of subsidizing its agricultural sector and distorting the market.

Yesterday, China and the U.S. agreed to extend the pause in the tariff escalation that had resulted from the Trump administration's "reciprocal tariffs," with the result of the pause being that the existing tariff situation will remain in place until November 10 as negotiations continue.

Even with U.S. export approval, Nvidia’s H20 chips face a challenging market in China, where they are now under strict security scrutiny from Beijing.

The Financial Times reported yesterday that the Trump administration has worked out a deal with Nvidia and AMD under which the semiconductor companies will be granted export licenses on chip sales to China, and in return the companies will give the U.S. government 15% of the revenue from these

In its third party submission in the WTO complaint brought by China against Türkiye's EV duties and related measures, the U.S. has cited China's "non-market industrial policy measures" and "excess capacity" in support of Türkiye's legal defenses.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * China-U.S. Stockholm meeting * Antitrust decision on Synopsys-Ansys merger * MOFCOM comments on export controls * New development on CK Hutchison’s sale of its port business * Taliban termination of oil extraction contract with Chinese investors * Trump administration’s comments on China’s economy