It has been widely reported in the media that Australia-China trade relations have deteriorated in recent months. Some aspects of this issue have been discussed in WTO committees and other bodies. At the May 3 meeting of the WTO’s Working Party on State-Trading Enterprises, for which the minutes were

At the meeting of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement held on June 2, 2021, for which the meeting minutes [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/PLURI/GPA/M83.pdf&Open=True] were just recently circulated, China provided some details on the status of

On July 20, the United States made another submission [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/G/SPS/GEN1943.pdf&Open=True] to the SPS Committee targeting China’s trade restrictive measures taken as a response to COVID-19. In the submission, which is the U.

As we described here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/new-developments-in-wto-dispute-on-trqs-on-agricultural-products/] , on July 15 there were two developments in the U.S.-China WTO dispute related to TRQs on certain agricultural products (DS517): 1) the United States requested authorization [https://www.worldtradelaw.net/document.php?id=rr/ds517-19-rr.pdf] from the WTO&

The European Commission recently proposed a package of legislative measures to reduce the EU's carbon emissions by at least 55% by 2030, including a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism [https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/carbon_border_adjustment_mechanism_0.pdf] (CBAM). This proposal has drawn criticism

In September of 2019, Canada requested WTO consultations with China in relation to Chinese measures restricting imports of canola seeds from Canada. Consultations were held in October of that year but failed to resolve the dispute. In June of 2021, Canada revived the dispute by requesting a panel. China blocked

On July 15, there were two developments in the China - Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products [https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds517_e.htm] WTO dispute: 1) the United States requested WTO authorization to retaliate against China because China allegedly failed to