A petition alleging that imported chassis from Mexico and Thailand have been subsidized and are causing injury to a U.S. industry is the latest U.S. CVD case to cite Chinese "transnational subsidies."

A U.S. countervailing duty investigation on file folders from Cambodia is the latest trade remedy investigation to test out the new regulations allowing the Commerce Department to consider transnational subsidy programs as part of its assessment of foreign subsidies.

Officials of the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently touted growing domestic consumption in 2024, in part due to the government's trade-in subsidy programs, and made additional announcements related to the operation of these programs in 2025.

At a recent think tank event, economic experts reviewed China's industrial policies and examined the successes and failures of these policies.

In a ruling today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed appeals of an EU General Court ruling that the European Commission's treatment of subsidies provided by third country governments – so-called "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies – as countervailable was permitted under EU

The WTO has now circulated China's consultations request related to the EU's definitive countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles.

At the meeting of the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) earlier this week, China and other WTO members debated the issue of capacity/overcapacity, and the chair expressed concern with the level of compliance by WTO Members with their subsidy notification requirements.