MAINLAND CHINA

The White House issued a statement on 31 January regarding the conclusion of two days of trade talks in Washington, D.C. between the United States and mainland China. The discussions covered a range of issues, including pressure to transfer technology to mainland Chinese firms, intellectual property rights, tariff and non-tariff barriers, and cyber-theft. More

The Trump administration has received nearly 13,000 requests for exclusions from the additional tariffs it has imposed on imports from mainland China, according to information made available by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Some have been granted and more have been denied but most are still at various stages of review. More

On 28 January, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office published its updated budget and economic outlook for the current year as well as the next decade. In remarks delivered to the press upon release of the new report, Keith Hall, who has led the CBO since 2015, noted that the U.S. government’s debt is already large and budget deficits over the next decade and beyond are projected to keep increasing in relation to the size of the economy. More

On 15 January 2019, two Chinese industry associations lodged a court action in the EU’s first tier General Court over the European Commission’s recent decision to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties on tyres for buses and lorries imported from mainland China. More