During this week's trip to China, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discussed export controls, China's business environment and U.S.-China trade relations at meetings with Chinese officials and made additional statements in media interviews. Here are some highlights of her statements.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has announced proposed rule changes that would take into account "inaction" by foreign governments in a number of policy areas as part of the calculation of anti-dumping and countervailing duties.

In final determinations issued in recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Commerce mostly confirmed its preliminary determinations that several manufacturers of photovoltaic cells and modules have been circumventing anti-dumping/countervailing duties imposed on imports from China by doing "minor processing" in four Southeast Asian countries. However, due

The U.S. Commerce Department has announced a proposed rule that would eliminate the current regulation preventing it from countervailing "transnational" or "cross-border" subsidies, with China's BRI subsidies a likely target of any new countervailing duties.

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department issued preliminary determinations in its anti-dumping duty investigations of tin mill products from a number of countries, using what it considered to be an insufficient response from Chinese companies to set much higher duties for them than for companies from other countries.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce took a step towards applying countervailing duties on Chinese tin mill products, with a parallel proceeding on anti-dumping duties still underway.

In two recent trade remedy decisions, the U.S. Commerce Department made preliminary determinations on anti-dumping/countervailing duties on file folders and pressure washers from China.