With the Republican party now in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, House Republican leaders have chosen Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) as Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is the main House Committee with jurisdiction over trade policy. The Chair of the Subcommittee on trade

Last week, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Trade with China Strategic Assessment Act, which would require an executive branch report about trade integration with China.

MOFCOM announced today that China would file a WTO complaint challenging U.S. export control measures related to semiconductors.

Yesterday, the United States and the European Union held a third round of meetings under the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), with discussions of a number of issues that have implications for China.

In a speech today, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo set out the Biden administration's thinking on "U.S. Competitiveness and the China Challenge," emphasizing many of the same general themes and specific issues that others in the administration have put forward in recent months.

China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced that it will again extend tariff exclusions on some U.S. goods that were subject to retaliatory tariffs as a response to U.S. Section 301 tariffs.

At the APEC Ministerial Meeting last week, Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai met, but few details were released by either side on the scope of the discussions. In the meantime, bilateral trade has been shrinking due to various factors, including declining demand,