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The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:

The AFL-CIO told China bill conferees that renewing Trade Adjustment Assistance, making changes to trade remedies laws, creating outbound investment screening and removing Chinese exports from de minimis eligibility "should be included in any competitiveness package that purports to challenge China's increasing economic dominance."

The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:

While the Biden administration faces very little legal constraint to continuing the Section 301 tariffs on the vast majority of Chinese imports, trade experts at the Wiley firm said that the administration is under pressure for a variety of reasons to make a decision on whether they are going to change their approach to the tariffs. So far, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has reinstated fewer than 500 exclusions, either due to the COVID-19 pandemic or to a limited review, and has not offered to renew the bulk of the 2,129 exclusions that were granted during the previous administration.

The U.S. “tariff war” on China does "nobody" any good, and “it’s time for the U.S. administration to reconsider and to cancel it as early as possible,” said a Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wednesday when asked at his regular news conference to comment on President Joe Biden’s remarks that the White House was “discussing” the Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports in the context of curbing inflation. “We're looking at what would have the most positive impact,” Biden told reporters Tuesday. “No decision has been made on it.” “Tariffs imposed unilaterally by the U.S. on China are not in the interest of China, the U.S. or the whole world,” said the spokesperson.

The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:

The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:

The Biden administration's approach to changing Section 301 tariffs is "a work in progress," said Sarah Bianchi, a deputy U.S. trade representative, while at a May 11 National Council of Textile Organizations conference. Her comments, which avoided directly answering a question of whether the administration position is that tariffs on apparel are not strategic, came a day after President Joe Biden told reporters that administration officials are discussing whether any Section 301 tariffs should be lowered or removed, "and no decision has been made on it."

The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 10 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):