Australian trade minister Dan Tehan said during an interview [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-11-17/australia-needs-constructive-dialogue-with-china-tehan-video] with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday that he is "very much looking forward" to "constructive engagement" with China, which is a necessary step for China to join the CPTPP. Commenting

During an interview [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvvLyCLsw3I] at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was asked to clarify the U.S. approach to trade relations in Asia, including its interest in the CPTPP or some alternative, and China's role

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing [https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-lisa-w-wang-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-commerce-vice-jeffrey-kessler] today on the nominations of two Commerce Department officials: Maria Louise Lago as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Lisa Wang as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance. The questions from the

At a press conference [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmNXH0uEYKY] following the APEC Ministers Meeting, New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor was asked several questions about the applications by Taiwan and China to join the CPTPP. He avoided offering a specific response to

At a Washington International Trade Association (WITA) webinar on the CPTPP [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-ZYzWe77Y] yesterday, Tim Groser, formerly New Zealand's ambassador to the United States, and Wendy Cutler, formerly of USTR, both offered thoughts on various aspects of the applications by China and Taiwan

On October 12, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade heard testimony from [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/commjnt/25097/&sid=0001] Elliott Charng of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

In a letter [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ustr_cptpp_letter.pdf] to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai dated October 5, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-calls-on-us-trade-representative-to-stop-chinas-admission-to-11-nation-trading-pact] Tai "to use tools available under the USMCA to stop