February 8th, 2017
In the first two weeks of the Trump administration, there has been a great deal of discussion of policies affecting trade, though formal proposals have not yet been made on most of them.
January 25th, 2017
Limited progress on State Owned Enterprise (SOE) reform continues to undermine US industry’s confidence in China’s policy direction, but recent announcements limiting SOE outbound investment might be beneficial.
December 14th, 2016
The 15th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) was marked with a fresh trade dispute Monday after the United States ignored the December 11 deadline to end its use of non-market economy (NME) calculations for antidumping cases.
December 9th, 2015
In a largely symbolic decision, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week announced it will add the yuan to its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies on October 1, 2016. It will be the biggest change to the basket since the euro was created in 1999.
August 19th, 2015
Update: As this article went to print, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) decided to freeze the Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies until October 2016. This will allow more time for markets to adjust to changes in the basket that might occur as a result of the IMF’s evaluation of the RMB in November.
