Last week, President Trump threatened "massive" tariffs on Chinese goods, explicitly citing China’s recently expanded export control regulations as the basis for the escalation. In this piece, we provide a detailed explanation of the new dual-use export control rules, as well as an examination of the strategic ...

The rhetoric from President Trump cooled a bit over the weekend, but key members of his administration are still offering public statements that present an aggressive posture in reaction to China's recent export control announcements. ...

Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) expanded its export control list by adding high-end lithium-ion batteries, advanced cathode and anode materials, superhard materials, manufacturing equipment, and related technology. ...

Last week, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued new rules imposing extraterritorial export control measures for rare earth items. The new regime effectively extends China's regulatory reach beyond its borders, further completing a system that mirrors the legal framework of U.S. export controls. ...

On Friday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced modifications to certain aspects of the action it took as part of its Section 301 investigation on China's practices in the maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors. ...

In response to China's recent announcements of expanded export controls, President Trump indicated that the U.S. will respond with 100% tariffs, as well as export controls on software and perhaps on Boeing parts. ...

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Today, China's Ministry of Commerce sanctioned 14 Western companies and several affiliates in the defense and intelligence sectors by adding them to the unreliable entity list. ...

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce expanded its dual-use item list for export control purposes, by adding rare earths, rare earth-related technologies, raw materials, alloys, processing equipment to the list, further tightening its export controls over the rare earth supply chain. ...

China made a big announcement recently about giving up developing country status in WTO negotiations going forward, but the U.S. reacted with skepticism at a recent meeting. ...

Yesterday, China's top envoy to the World Trade Organization (WTO) accused the United States of disrupting global supply chains and using "power-based" trade policies that are eroding the rules-based multilateral system. The U.S. delegation pushed back and accused China of "incentiviz[ing] massive economic ...

The EU is moving forward with new trade restrictions on steel imports, which are likely to aggravate trade tensions with China and other countries. ...

Taiwan issued its first-ever nationwide export controls in late September, which were then swiftly reversed. Nonetheless, the move is still significant, as it signals an effort by Taipei to leverage its dominance in the semiconductor industry for political aims. ...

As part of an interview at the Economic Club of New York, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer touched on a number of key issues in China-U.S. trade relations, including rare earth export controls, a focus on trade in non-sensitive products, cultural aspects of negotiations, and trans-shipment. ...

Trade friction is escalating between China and Mexico. Following the opening of a new investigation into the Mexican government's trade practices, China's Ministry of Commerce has now issued a rebuke against rising trade remedy investigations into Chinese goods, characterizing this trend as a sign that Mexico ...

In a strategic move designed to bolster its bioeconomy, China’s State Council recently approved a new pilot program in the Jiangsu Free Trade Zone (FTZ), which will be used as a testing ground for system-wide innovation in the biopharma sector. One of the core innovations of the plan is ...

In a report circulated last week, a WTO panel found that an EU countervailing duty calculated in way that attributed Chinese government subsidies to the government of Indonesia was inconsistent with the WTO's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM). ...

This past week, CTM reported on the following. China recently formalized some new measures, some of which may signal a prolonged period of strategic geopolitical tension. It revised its international maritime transport rules and granted new authorities to retaliate against discriminatory measures from foreign nations, a move that comes ahead ...

This week, China revised its international maritime transport rules and granted new authorities to retaliate against discriminatory measures from foreign nations, a move that comes ahead of the U.S. imposing port fees targeting China-built and China-operated ships. ...

In response to an order to close its operations in Canada, Chinese tech company Hikvision, a major surveillance equipment manufacturer, has brought multiple lawsuits against the Government of Canada. ...

This week, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and a number of other agencies published new rules on export license requirements for electric vehicles (EVs), marking the latest effort to regulate its booming auto exports, and perhaps also to avoid trade tensions. ...

Today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security published an interim final rule that expands the application of export control sanctions by tightening export controls so they apply to subsidiaries of companies on the Entity List or the Military End-User List. ...

In its latest tariff move, the Trump administration is imposing tariffs on various wood products for national security reasons, with Chinese production likely to feel a significant impact. ...

Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Co., known as DJI, a privately owned manufacturer of consumer and commercial drones, brought a lawsuit against a Department of Defense (DoD) decision to designate it as a "Chinese Military Company" (CMC). In an opinion issued last week, a U.S. district court rejected ...

Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced that it launched an ex officio anti-dumping investigation on pecans from Mexico and the United States, adding to mounting trade tensions with both countries. ...