China’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) has issued proposed revisions to its Government Procurement Law (GPL) that extend the provisions to some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and could pave the way for joining international agreements.

Last week, the UK Parliament had separate discussions of two big issues related to China trade, forced labor and security, in which members of Parliament raised concerns and called for action.

The EU's new International Procurement Instrument (IPI) was signed on June 23, 2022 and published on June 30, 2022. It enters into force on August 29, 2022. In general terms, the IPI "introduces measures limiting non-EU companies’ access to the open EU public procurement market if their

Last month, we wrote about a provision in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 designed to restrict Chinese-owned companies from selling rail cars or buses to be used in U.S. transit. While doing further research on the example we provided of electric bus purchases in Broward

The U.S. federal government reached a settlement last week with two government contractors accused of fraudulently using Chinese containers and steel in their contracts with the Department of Defense. The settlement involves a monetary payment as well as training and reporting requirements.

In the $768 billion [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/defense-spending-bill.html] U.S. defense spending bill that Congress recently passed (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R.4350 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350]), there is a provision that prohibits the

Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Todd Young (R-IN) wrote to [https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/10/carper-young-letter-seeks-to-protect-medical-device-jobs-and-hold-china-accountable] U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai "express[ing] concern with recent action by China related to the procurement of medical devices." The