At the meeting of WTO's Committee on Market Access on October 16 and 17, 2023, for which the minutes of the meeting were recently circulated, WTO Members considered issues related to Chinese export controls on gallium and germanium, Türkiye's tariffs on electric vehicles, and the U.

At a meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures today, issues related to the EU's countervailing duty investigation on Chinese electric vehicles, subsidies and overcapacity, and U.S. semiconductor subsidies were all discussed.

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing on U.S. trade policy today, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked about several China related trade issues: The Section 301 investigation on shipbuilding/maritime issues and use of Section 301 more generally; the review of the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese

At the China-Italy Business and Dialogue Forum in Italy last Friday, Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao criticized the European Commission's recent actions against Chinese green products, including electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels, and wind turbines, calling them "trade protectionist" and a "double standard."

Yesterday, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called for the U.S. "to ban Chinese-made electric vehicles to protect Ohio autoworkers, and to combat the economic and national security threats posed by Chinese automakers."

Today, the European Commission published an updated report on "significant state-induced distortions" in the Chinese economy, which provides a basis for replacing distorted Chinese prices and costs in a particular sector with prices and costs from a third country with undistorted market conditions, as part of an anti-dumping

China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao began a visit to Europe last weekend, focusing on the electric vehicle (EV) industry. During recent meetings, he told Chinese auto makers that his government still supports them in protecting their rights and interests, and encouraged more collaboration between the Chinese companies