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.

Earlier this week, the American Active Anode Material Producers, representing U.S. producers of graphite, filed a petition for the imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of active anode material (i.e. processed graphite) from China.

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, Australia indicated that it had completed implementation of a WTO dispute brought by China related to anti-dumping measures on several products.

The U.S. Department of Commerce proceedings targeting Chinese companies producing solar panels in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are continuing, with preliminary affirmative determinations in the anti-dumping duty investigations of Crystalline Photovoltaic Cells Whether or Not Assembled into Modules issued last week.

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

France has been caught in the crossfire of trade tensions between China and the EU. A recent trip to China by Sophie Primas, the French Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and French Nationals Abroad, illustrates the delicate balancing act both sides are trying to perform.

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce confirmed that it had filed an additional lawsuit against the EU's anti-subsidy measures on electric vehicles at the WTO, following up on its earlier complaint on the preliminary measures.