On March 4, 2025, China announced it would impose additional tariffs on certain US agricultural imports from March 10, 2025, in retaliation to President Trump's March 3 executive order issued under the International Emergency...more
On May 13, 2019, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (“MOFCOM”) announced that it will offer a tariff exclusion process for importers in China that face serious economic or social consequences due to...more
The Trump Administration’s tariff wars may cause American companies to move operations offshore, with joint ventures in China one likely option. A joint venture with a Chinese partner can enable a company to respond nimbly...more
China has introduced a plan to restructure some of its key governmental institutions, including the operations of its three antitrust enforcement agencies. The new scheme, announced in March 2018, for the first time...more
Immediately after the United States Trade Representative (USTR) proposed an additional duty of 25% on over 1300 categories of products from China, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) responded with its own proposed list of...more
On December 3, 2013, former Congressman Don Bonker of APCO and I will be speaking in Vancouver, Canada at a breakfast conference held by the American Chamber of Commerce on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Demystified: A...more