As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-initiates-section-232-investigation-on-neodymium-magnets/] , in late September the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1862] "to determine the effects on

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/fcc-bans-china-telecom-u-s-business-eyeing-more-companies-soon/] , on October 26 the FCC revoked [https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-revokes-china-telecom-americas-telecom-services-authority] the license for the state-owned China Telecom Corp.’s U.S. business China Telecom Americas to provide domestic interstate and international telecommunications services in the United States. The order

In a notice posted yesterday [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/09/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-the-threat-from-securities-investments-that-finance-certain-companies-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/] , President Biden decided to continue for 1 year the national emergency declared by President Trump, and later expanded by Biden, with respect to "the threat from securities investments that finance" certain Chinese companie

The U.S. Geological Survey at the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued the 2021 Draft List of Critical Minerals [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/09/2021-24488/2021-draft-list-of-critical-minerals] today. The list is designed to address the concern that the United States is heavily dependent on imports of certain

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3919/actions] similar legislation on October 20, yesterday the Senate passed its own version [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1790/text] of a law designed to tighten existing restrictions on products from companies

On October 26, the FCC revoked [https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-revokes-china-telecom-americas-telecom-services-authority] the license for the state-owned China Telecom Corp.’s U.S. business China Telecom Americas to provide domestic interstate and international telecommunications services in the United States. Decisions on licenses for additional Chinese telecom companies, such as China

Ho Pui-shan (Louise Ho) became Hong Kong’s new Commissioner of Customs and Excise on October 21. During the press conference [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAVjSzsTXVo] (link in Cantonese) with media after taking the position, she mentioned combatting smuggling as one of the tasks of her agency, including