The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) will soon formally review extending the first batch of Section 301 tariffs covering $34 billion worth of imports from China from Trump’s first term, including medical devices, robotics, and aerospace products.
The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) will soon formally review extending the first batch of Section 301 tariffs covering $34 billion worth of imports from China from Trump’s first term, including medical devices, robotics, and aerospace products.
The National People’s Congress Standing Committee has approved revisions to the Trademark Law, effective January 1, 2027. Compared to previous amendments, which adjusted the law at the margins, this revision is a more heavy-handed overhaul of measures handling bad faith trademark filings and regulating branding activities. The new version builds on the draft released for public comments in February and includes several positive changes recommended by USCBC.
At this year’s Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai, China’s top financial regulators announced the Shanghai International Financial Center Offshore Finance Action Plan, which aims to make the RMB more usable for offshore trading, settlement, financing, and risk management.
This tracker monitors trade and economic actions between the United States and China from January 2025 to present. It documents tariffs, export controls, investigations, entity list additions, and other trade-related measures announced by both governments, providing announcement dates, effective dates, sources, and summaries of each action. The tracker is regularly updated to help members stay informed about the evolving US-China trade relationship.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 is coming into focus after the House and Senate armed services committees advanced their versions of the bill earlier this month.
The export controls and sanctions tracker lists all active Commerce, Treasury, and State Department export controls aimed at China—including Hong Kong. This tracker is updated regularly and an archived tab will be added in the future as entities and individuals are removed from US government blacklists.
USCBC interviews Yi Fuxian, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on the factors behind China’s demographic decline, the impacts on its economy, and emerging commercial opportunities.
Exports from China are facing a new threat to their competitiveness: carbon border taxes. The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism, which took effect in January, requires the bloc’s importers to pay for the carbon emissions of the goods they purchase. Similar legislation is set to take effect next year in the United Kingdom, and Canada, Japan, Australia, and South Korea all have carbon import taxes in the legislative pipeline.
Beijing is systematically executing its AI+ Action Plan across specific industries, with the energy sector its most recent focus. On May 8, four Chinese government agencies jointly issued the Action Plan for Promoting the Mutual Empowerment of AI and Energy, offering an early glimpse into how Beijing will operationalize its AI ambitions. In explicitly linking AI development and energy security, the document solidifies China’s strategy of embedding AI in existing industrial systems rather than treating AI as its own separate industry.
On June 1, China’s State Council released the Regulation on Outbound Investment, elevating the issue to the State Council level and expanding oversight to factor in national security, technology transfer, capital flows, and data. The new rules will take effect on July 1.
