Last week, the Commerce Department announced the final determinations in anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations of imports of tin mill products from China (and other countries), leaving the dumping rates unchanged from the preliminary determination but raising the subsidy rates.

Recent company lobbying and Congressional pressure on the Biden administration have put the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) industry, which makes sensors used in autonomous vehicle, in the middle of the U.S.-China tech/trade conflict.

In two recent conversations, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez offered some explanations of how they see the role of U.S. export controls in denying China access to U.S. technology.

The commerce ministers of China and the United States met last week on the sideline of APEC. While the two sides remain at odds about the national security aspects of trade and investment, they managed to agree on enhancing communication on trade secret protection, standards, as well as trade and

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced new export control rules that target China's semiconductor and AI industry, expanding the parameters and patching "loopholes" of existing export controls on chips and manufacturing tools.

Last Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department added 42 Chinese companies to the Entity List "for providing support to Russia’s military and/or defense industrial base." This came after it added 11 Chinese firms a week earlier.

In reaction to recent reports of a new Huawei smartphone with advanced capabilities, member of Congress are pushing the U.S. Commerce Department to tighten semiconductor export controls even further.