China Pushes Regional Integration at APEC Ministerial Meeting
China is leveraging its 2026 APEC host year to position itself as the primary architect of the Asia-Pacific’s digital and services infrastructure, two commercial frontiers that Beijing has pushed to the top of its trade agenda in recent years.
U.S. Court Upholds Trump Administration Divestment Order in Chinese Takeover of Tech Company
In an opinion issued earlier this week, a U.S. court ruled in favor of a Trump administration order that a Chinese purchaser of a U.S. audiovisual equipment company must divest the purchase, and that a preliminary injunction appointing a receiver to handle the divestment is the appropriate relief.
MOFCOM Tightens Controls over Fentanyl Precursors
Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) revised its control list of chemical exports, adding three more substances to a list that requires special permission for shipments to the United States, Mexico and Canada.
U.S. Trade Rep. Greer Talks Board of Trade, AI, Chinese FDI
At an event yesterday at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer had a discussion with former U.S. Trade Rep. Mike Froman, who is now the President of CFR, about various aspects of U.S. trade policy. Issues related to China that came up
Wingtech Tests China’s Anti-Sanctions Law in $1.2B Suit Against Nexperia
Chinese firm Wingtech has invoked Chinese anti-sanctions legislation to sue its Dutch subsidiaries Nexperia and five other parties in Chinese court, seeking to unwind Dutch measures that it says unlawfully stripped it of control over its semiconductor subsidiary as well as 8 billion yuan (approximately $1.2 billion) in
New Paper Looks at How Chinese AD Investigation on EU Pork Targeted Spain
A new academic paper examines how China uses anti-dumping investigations as a retaliatory response to anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations it faces in other countries, focusing on the example of China's pork investigation in flipping Spain's vote in the EU electric vehicle case.
Five EU Nations Push for Stronger Tools To Address Chinese Non-Market Practices
As part of an ongoing discussion in the EU on how to respond to economic harm from Chinese exports, a group of EU member states has published a paper that makes the case for a variety of new trade tools.