Last week, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office issued its 2024 report on foreign trade barriers. The section on Chinese laws and regulations is mostly the same as the previous year, but new concerns on government procurement, labor, and export restrictions have been added.

Last month, the European Commission announced the first ever in-depth investigation under its new Foreign Subsidies Regulation, targeting CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CRRC Corporation, a Chinese state-owned train manufacturer. In reaction to that investigation, CRRC withdrew its bid for a Bulgarian procurement contract.

The European Commission has posted the official notice related to its investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) of a Chinese railcar maker's bid for a Bulgarian procurement contract.

On Friday, the European Commission announced the first ever in-depth investigation under its new Foreign Subsidies Regulation, targeting CRRC Qingdao Sifang Locomotive Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CRRC Corporation, a Chinese state-owned train manufacturer.

A government oversight body has found that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) purchased Chinese-manufactured videoconference cameras that were not compliant with U.S. law.

At a recent WTO Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures meeting, Japan brought up previously raised issues related to office device standards and China's procurement law, but China argued that this committee was not the appropriate place to discuss them.

In a new post, U.S. trade lawyer Jean Heilman Grier, a former USTR official who specializes in government procurement law, has written in detail about the procurement aspects of China's new efforts to attract foreign investment.