On May 19, China's Ministry of Commerce started an anti-dumping investigation on polyoxymethylene, generally referred to as POM, copolymers from the United States, the European Union, Taiwan and Japan, after the domestic petitioners argued the plastics were being dumped into the Chinese market at a margin of up

At a Senate budget hearing last week, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo discussed how to negotiate with the Chinese government on trade, tariff evasion through Chinese production in third countries, and data gathered by Chinese connected vehicles.

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department initiated anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations on silicon photovoltaic cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on Chinese-headquartered companies that are producing in those countries.

A recent social media post tied to Chinese state media warned against EU actions against Chinese subsidies, stating that "China actually has sufficient countermeasures."

In an opinion issued last week, Advocate General Tamara Ćapeta of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concluded that the European Commission's treatment of cross-border subsidies in anti-subsidy investigations was consistent with EU law.

Last week, a U.S. Senator called for additional tariffs on Chinese automobiles, and members of Congress introduced legislation that would impose tariffs on Chinese drones.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Russia-China trade * MOFCOM comments on "industrial overcapacity" rhetoric related to green goods * Xi’s visits to Serbia and Hungary In the U.S.: * USTR Section 301 tariff review * Blocked Chinese-linked investment in cryptocurrency mining facility * Biden administration actions