As part of the eighth Commission Meeting of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership last week, the official statement from the parties includes two items that relate to China, although China is not mentioned by name.

Last month, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) unveiled a series of measures aimed at bolstering "steady growth" of trade, including maintaining its momentum in the global e-commerce market. The initiatives come amid growing global trade tensions and shifts in international trade policies.

Last month, the British government issued a "notice of final order" that China-registered Future Technology Devices International Holding Ltd must sell 80.2 percent of Scottish fabless semiconductor firm FTDI, due to national security risks.

At a recent think tank event, economic experts reviewed China's industrial policies and examined the successes and failures of these policies.

The U.S. Department of Commerce proceedings targeting Chinese companies producing solar panels in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are continuing, with preliminary affirmative determinations in the anti-dumping duty investigations of Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells Whether or Not Assembled into Modules issued last week.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * China-Brazil economic agreements * China's sanction measures * U.S. Trade Rep. nominee's views on China trade * Prospects for China PNTR revocation * New entities added to UFLPA list * Estimates of impact of Chinese gallium/germanium export ban * Estimates of impact

In a ruling today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed appeals of an EU General Court ruling that the European Commission's treatment of subsidies provided by third country governments – so-called "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies – as countervailable was permitted under EU