U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai commented on China-U.S. trade relations yesterday, emphasizing the importance of international rules on labor standards, environmental protections, and anti-monopoly provisions.

Australian concerns about Chinese investment in the mining sector are continuing, as Treasury Minister Jim Chalmers has stood in the way of another investment.

Several high-profile state visits in May 2024 have led to a series of new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) documents published by China's General Administration of Customs (GACC) last month.

Last week, China's Ministry of Finance announced that it would suspend tariff concessions for another batch of imports from Taiwan, as a follow-up on Taiwan's "discriminatory trade bans and restrictions on mainland products."

Legislation proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives last month would give additional power to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to restrict exports of AI technology.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. * China-Japan-South Korea summit * Chinese export controls in the aerospace and aviation sector * Graphite exports * Developments on Australian beef imports * U.S. Commerce Department sets preliminary duties on Chinese glass wine bottles * U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission hearings * U.S.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary affirmative determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of certain glass wine bottles from China.