At the WTO SPS Committee meeting held on July 12-14, 2023, for which the meeting minutes were recently circulated, there were discussions of a number of SPS measures imposed by China.

A recent meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures discussed various Chinese subsidy notifications. In addition, the U.S. asked some detailed questions this week about China's most recent notification.

At a recent WTO Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures meeting, Japan brought up previously raised issues related to office device standards and China's procurement law, but China argued that this committee was not the appropriate place to discuss them.

At a WTO Committee on Rules of Origin meeting, China presented its study of the utilization of tariff preferences by least developed countries (LDCs), and other WTO Members offered their reactions.

At the meeting of the WTO Working Party on State Trading Enterprises on October 20, 2023, for which the minutes were recently circulated, the U.S. and EU complained that China had provided insufficient information in its notification.

In a request for information pursuant to Article 63.3 of the TRIPS Agreement, the EU has asked that China provide the text of a recent domestic court decision that set the worldwide rates for standard essential patents of Nokia relating to 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mobile telecommunications technology.

Last week, the WTO held a trade policy review for Hong Kong. In addition to comments on trade policy, the U.S., EU, and UK all made critical comments about China's actions that have led to the "erosion" of Hong Kong's "autonomy."