The European Commission imposed antidumping duties Oct. 20 on steel track shoes from China, the Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security announced. The AD rate is 62.5% and is imposed following the imposition of provisional duties, which have been collected since April 22. Steel track shoes are used as parts for tracked equipment that's used in the construction and mining sectors.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese thanked President Donald Trump for supporting the nuclear-powered submarine deal and defense trade agreement known as AUKUS, calling it "so important for us," at a White House signing ceremony Oct. 20 for cooperation on critical minerals mining and processing.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Oct. 17 rejected both the government’s and law firm Husch Blackwell’s motions for judgment in a Freedom of Information Act dispute involving the Entity List. It gave the Commerce Department time to provide adequate justifications for its decisions to withhold certain information but said the ones it already provided weren’t enough (Husch Blackwell v. Department of Commerce, D.D.C. # 24-2733.
President Donald Trump told reporters that unless China stops fentanyl shipments, resumes buying U.S. soybeans and stops playing "the rare earth game with us," he won't lower tariffs.
Two Asia Society Policy Institute experts said the readouts from the call over the weekend between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng suggest the call was mostly logistical, planning for the next round of talks in Malaysia.
The U.K. added two people to its Haiti sanctions regime on Oct. 20. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation sanctioned Dimitri Herard, a "former Haitian police officer and head of the National Palace General Security Unit" who was charged by Haitian authorities with being complicit in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise; and Kempes Sanon, the leader of the Les Argentins gang.
China’s recently issued rare earth export controls were likely a response to the Commerce Department’s 50% rule for the Entity List and highlighted the ongoing communication issues between the two sides, said David Sacks, the White House’s AI policy adviser.
U.S. export controls on design technology for advanced computing chips have spurred China to speed up pursuing its own capabilities, according to a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has informed U.S.-based Arrow Electronics that it will soon remove several of Arrow’s China-based affiliates from the Entity List, the electronics parts supplier said this week.
David Peters has been sworn in as assistant secretary of commerce for export enforcement at the Bureau of Industry and Security, an agency spokesperson said in an e-mail Oct. 16. Peters, who received Senate confirmation earlier this month (see 2510080002), has pledged to “aggressively” enforce U.S. export controls (see 2506130035). Separately, the State Department said Thomas DiNanno was sworn in Oct. 10 as undersecretary for arms control and international security.