On December 2, U.S. Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) introduced legislation, H.R.6121 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6121?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22terri+sewell%22%2C%22terri%22%2C%22sewell%22%5D%7D&s=3&r=1] , called

On November 24, the USITC determined that the U.S. safeguard measure on solar products that is currently in effect is still necessary to protect the domestic industry after it expires on February 6, 2022. As we described in two [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-companies-ask-for-extension-of-section-201-solar-tariffs/] posts [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2322] definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of optical fibre cables from China. The level of the anti-dumping duties ranges from 19.7% to 44%. One interesting aspect of the Commission's reasoning relates to

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-solar-companies-argue-that-chinese-economic-coercion-justifies-keeping-identities-secret-in-ad-cvd-proceeding/] , on August 16 a group of U.S. companies called the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention (A-SMACC) filed anti-circumvention petitions related to AD/CVD orders that had been imposed in December 2012 on photovoltaic cells from China. The Commerce Department

In July, we reported [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/commerce-department-makes-preliminary-affirmative-cvd-finding-on-mobile-access-equipment-china-but-says-currency-undervaluation-did-not-provide-a-countervailable-benefit/] on the Commerce Department's preliminary determination [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/30/2021-16332/certain-mobile-access-equipment-and-subassemblies-thereof-from-the-peoples-republic-of-china] that countervailable subsidies are being provided to pro

As we reported here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/review-of-solar-cvd-looks-at-chinese-currency-undervaluation/] , in an administrative review for a U.S. countervailing duty order for imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China during 2019, the domestic industry alleged that Chinese currency undervaluation in this period constitutes a countervailable subsidy. The Department of Commerce

In late June, the European Commission provided notice [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2280] that it would be extending for three additional years the safeguard measure in place on imports of certain steel products. In response to this extension, China requested consultations under Article 12.