Recently, China announced its first industrial competitiveness investigation on medical CT ball tube imports. As the trade war between the U.S. and China intensifies, the deployment of this new tool signals a deeper effort to evaluate vulnerabilities within China's key industries.

As bilateral trade tensions continue to rise, China's State Council published a White Paper highlighting the "mutual benefits" in bilateral relations and the harm of U.S. unilateral tariffs. It also attacked the U.S. implementation record of the Phase One Agreement, a deal signed between

In the latest round of the trade war, China has retaliated against the U.S. 84% tariff rate with its own 84% tariff, and has made a few new sanctions announcements as well.

At a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods today, China proposed a discussion of the April 2 "reciprocal tariffs" announced by the Trump administration, as well as additional U.S. tariff actions.

In another escalation of the trade war, President Trump has raised tariffs on Chinese imports again, with the current additional tariff rate on covered Chinese imports at 104% as of April 9.

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today on the U.S. trade policy agenda, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer made clear that the Trump administration would look to enforce the Phase One deal signed during Trump's first term.

The WTO has just posted China's request for consultations on the recent Trump administration "reciprocal tariffs" imposed on most countries, including China.