At the WTO SPS Committee meeting held on March 22-24, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, there were discussions of a number of SPS measures imposed by China or imposed by other Members affecting Chinese exports.

The WTO has just posted a June 30 communication from China entitled "New and Full Notification Pursuant To Article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994 and Article 25 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures," notifying WTO Members of China's subsidies from 2021-2022.

In recent years, U.S. government officials have frequently raised concerns about supply chains, with either explicit or implicit worry about intermediate goods or finished products from China as a key element. In a communication to the WTO last week, China has now offered some thoughts of its own on

At the April 3 and 4, 2023 meeting of the WTO Council for Trade in Goods, for which the minutes have now been circulated, a number of issues were raised by China in relation to other Members (including the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and semiconductor subsidies/export controls), and

At the meeting of the WTO Working Party on State Trading Enterprises on April 28, 2023, for which the minutes were recently circulated, the U.S. and EU complained that China had provided insufficient information in its notification.

At a WTO meeting that was held on Thursday and Friday, governments raised concerns with Chinese export restrictions on semiconductor input materials, and China raised issues of its own with U.S./Japanese/Dutch semiconductor export restrictions and the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Measure (CBAM).

At the meeting of the WTO's Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade on March 8-10, 2023, a number of WTO Members raised "specific trade concerns" (STCs) about particular Chinese measures, and China voiced its concerns with measures of other Members.