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.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce made its first determinations involving transnational subsidies under new regulations that allow these subsidies to be countervailed, in four linked cases on solar products. These determinations could eventually lead to litigation in U.S. courts or at the WTO on this issue.

Last week, the Dutch and U.S. governments both announced the expansion of their export controls in the semiconductor and quantum computing sectors.

A U.S. Commerce Department investigation that will apply new transnational subsidy rules for the first time is underway, with Commerce asking the Chinese government for details about its subsidies in the solar sector related to production in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Chinese government has now responded.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary determination in an anti-dumping duty investigation of paper plates from China.

Last week, members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party pressed the Biden administration to look into two drone makers with a connection to DJI and to place CATL on a Defense Department blacklist.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced final countervailing duty rates for glass wine bottles from China, and its reasoning in the case discusses the role of the CCP in Chinese companies.