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Week in Review: Commerce ICTS Rule, Xinjiang Imports Blocked, and China a Likely Focus in Confirmation Hearings

With less than a week left in office, and after Trump’s unprecedented second impeachment, the outgoing administration moved quickly this week to solidify its record on China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stepped up the pace of anti-China actions this week, with actions almost certainly...

Decoupling with China Not Economically Viable For Americans

As the Biden administration takes the reins of US trade policy, the question of what to do with existing tariffs on Chinese goods in the long term remains up in the air. According to a new report from Oxford Economics and the US-China Business Council, the answer is clear—even a moderate...

Preliminary Analysis of the EU-China Investment Treaty: Moving the Needle Slightly

On December 30, the European Union (EU) and Chinese government announced that they had agreed in principle to a bilateral investment treaty, the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), after 7 years of negotiations. The agreement appears to make modest progress in market access for EU...

How Biden’s Economic Team Views China Trade Policy

President-Elect Joe Biden’s trade and economic team will face a variety of China-related issues from day one in office. The next US trade representative will have to grapple with what to do with the Phase One trade agreement and tariffs on some $370 billion worth of Chinese goods. The Commerce...

China’s 2021 Economic Growth Prospects Look Bright

Battered by a global pandemic that took a toll on China’s domestic growth and the economies of its trading partners, China’s economy grew at an anemic 2.1 percent in 2020, the slowest pace in four decades—but also the fastest growth of any major economy. This year, the outlook appears brighter....

A Note to Members from Craig Allen

Please allow me to wish everyone a more stable and prosperous 2021! We are on the cusp of significant change that will bring new challenges and opportunities to each of our members. Perhaps Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, when he was living in exile, described last week best when he said, “there are...

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