Last week, Republican Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai pressing for a new Section 301 investigation on Chinese economic practices, an action which has been rumored for several months but has not yet been initiated.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has released its 2022 Trade Policy Agenda and 2021 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program. The report covers the full range of trade policy issues addressed by USTR. We focus here on the

Last week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued its 2021 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy (Notorious Markets List, or NML), which "highlights prominent and illustrative examples of online and physical markets that reportedly engage in, facilitate, turn a blind eye to, or benefit

Today the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its 20th report on China's compliance with "commitments made in connection with its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), including both multilateral commitments and any bilateral commitments made to the United States."

As a follow up to the June 24 Senate Finance Committee hearing [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/deputy-ustr-nominee-sarah-bianchi-on-tariffs-against-china-and-chinese-digital-trade-regulation/] on the nomination of Sarah Bianchi to be a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (with oversight of Asia/China policy), Senators submitted questions for the record to be answered later in writing. The

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on the Nominations of Maria Pagan to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Geneva Office) and Christopher Wilson to be USTR's Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator (as well as Brent Neiman to be Deputy Under Secretary of the

After months of saying that they are reviewing their China trade policy, the Biden administration has, through a speech by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai at CSIS, an interview with Tai on CNBC, and remarks made on background by senior administration officials, offered some details on the direction they