Last Friday, Congressman John Moolenaar (R-MI) hosted a roundtable in Green Charter Township, Michigan on Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer Gotion's planned investments in the region.

China's Ministry of Commerce recently started an expiry review on anti-dumping measures on stainless steel billet and hot-rolled stainless steel plates /coils from the EU, UK, South Korea, and Indonesia, while letting the measures on Japan, which were disputed at the WTO, expire.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Beijing this week, where she talked about balancing bilateral trade and investment, and signed sectoral agreements in a number of areas, including electric vehicles and renewable energy.

On Friday, the EU requested WTO consultations with Taiwan, arguing that Taiwan's local content requirements in its offshore wind policy violate WTO rules.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * CCP document after the third plenum * MOFCOM updates anti-dumping investigations on EU pork and US propionic acid * MOFCOM comments on EU anti-dumping duties on biodiesel, as well as trade and investment policy * MFA removes entity from sanction list * Chinese auto

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), the U.S. blocked China's panel request on subsidies provided under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), but the establishment of a panel cannot be blocked the next time China requests it.

At a press conference today, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) provided comments on the EU's anti-dumping duties on Chinese biodiesel, the renewed effort to bolster cross-border trade and investment with risk control, and China's outbound investment.