From the start of Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, it was clear that the lawmakers and their sole witness, Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler, were having two very …

Over 70 House Democrats called on President Trump to block Chinese automakers from accessing the US market, in a letter Wednesday emphasizing concerns over threats to US workers, manufacturing and …

The Trump administration currently is drafting a plurilateral agreement on critical minerals trade with key trading partners to lessen dependence on China, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday.

Two new settlements Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security reached with technology and defense companies came to light on Tuesday, as the agency posted a $1.7 million deal covering years of shipments to SMIC and a smaller deal addressing anti-boycott violations.

In a social media post Wednesday, President Donald Trump heralded 50% duties on "any and all goods sold to the United States of America" from "a Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran." The new levies, he said, would be "effective immediately." While nothing has materialized 24 hours later, trade watchers have theories.

Solventum Corp., the healthcare and medtech company spun off from 3M in 2024, will pay the government $1.6 million after admitting that it sent dozens of contactors — devices used to regulate the amount of gas in liquids — to semiconductor companies in China without the required licenses.

Cryptocurrency is playing a growing role in financing the procurement of low-cost military drones and components linked to conflicts involving Russia and Iran, according to a  new report by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The findings highlight emerging compliance risks at the intersection of digital finance and modern warfare, as well as potential avenues for monitoring adversaries' acquisitions.

A week after the Trump administration issued a hall pass on Iranian oil sales, some international buyers are taking the bait, but questions remain as to how far they can stretch the definition of transactions “ordinarily incident and necessary to” purchases of the usually-illicit crude.

When the U.S. Department of Justice rounded out the year with a settlement topping $54.4 million, the largest ever recorded to resolve tariff fraud allegations, it was a holiday happy ending more than three years in making for whistleblower attorney Jonathan Tycko.

The United States is backing a Moroccan company’s plan to produce high-purity silicon used in semiconductors and solar panels, as part of broader efforts to diversify supply chains away from China’s dominance in critical tech materials, Bloomberg reported Monday. 

On Oct. 7, a special chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal allowed the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs to proceed with the ouster of Nexperia CEO Zhang Xuezheng, a Chinese national, whom Dutch authorities said was moving to relocate the semiconductor company’s intellectual property to China. 

President Donald Trump responded on Friday to China's plans to limit exports of certain rare earth minerals with two lengthy social media posts accusing Xi Jinping's government of "lying in wait" throughout trade talks this year and promised reprisals. Citing what he described as China’s “hostile” actions, Trump announced a 100 percent tariff on all Chinese imports, “over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying.” ”

China has unveiled sweeping new restrictions on rare earth exports, expanding its control over critical minerals and tightening scrutiny of foreign semiconductor and defense users. The measures extend to dozens of refining technologies and mining equipment, while creating a new licensing regime that requires approval for foreign firms producing rare earth magnets or chips with trace amounts of Chinese-sourced materials.

The task force responsible for blocking goods produced from Chinese state-sponsored forced labor programs targeting Uyghur and other minority groups announced five new priority sectors on Tuesday, including critical manufacturing inputs steel and lithium. 

When President Donald Trump rewrote the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States at the start of August a new condition appeared in the thrice-revised emergency tariff program alongside the shifting “reciprocal” levies.

Officials from China and the U.S. confirmed plans to meet in Stockholm on July 27 for a third round of trade talks, a conversation that is likely to touch on the future of embattled arbiter of Gen-Z culture TikTok, according to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.

Joe Manchin, speaking from the witness side of the diais, urged lawmakers to deploy National Defense Authorization to speed up permitting for domestic critical minerals mining and refining in his testimony at a hearing on Breaking China's Chokehold on Critical Mineral Supply Chains.

US businesses with suppliers located in China’s Xinjiang region cannot rely on social audits to confirm whether forced labor in being used in their supply chains, a top Administration labor official told lawmakers in an April 30 hearing. . “Social audits in China should not be seen as an authoritative source for companies reflecting on-the-ground human rights conditions,”Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs Thea Lee said.

The leaders of the House Select Committee on China are warning that a Chinese military company, BGI, is attempting to set up a new firm, Innomics, in Massachusetts and Kentucky, to avoid US regulatory scrutiny. In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc) and ranking Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill) urged the Pentagon to label Chinese companies that aid the Chinese Communist Party in military biotech research as “Chinese Military Companies.”

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission invites submission of proposals to provide a concise, one-time unclassified report on China’s Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications, which should assess China’s objectives and approach to advanced remote sensing technologies. Proposals must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. (ET) on September 8, 2023.