US appeals court upholds Section 232 exclusion denials for produce provider
May 18, 2026
| Eliana Hubacker
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Commerce Department’s denial of the Seneca Food Corporation’s eight exclusion requests from Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs.
US CIT remands Commerce garlic order for lack of evidence
May 18, 2026
| Bradley Dress
The US Court of International Trade has remanded the Commerce Department’s 2023 affirmative circumvention finding for an importer of fresh garlic cloves from China, finding the federal agency failed to examine... (more story)
China blocks compliance with EU Nuctech probe in data-sovereignty push
May 18, 2026
| MLex Staff
China moved to block compliance with the European Union’s probe into Chinese security-scanner maker Nuctech, marking Beijing’s strongest assertion yet of data sovereignty against foreign regulators as tensions... (more story)
China, US strike tariff, trade deals during Trump visit
May 18, 2026
| MLex Staff
US President Donald Trump’s May 13-15 state visit to China produced a series of outcomes, including a tariff-truce framework, new bilateral trade and investment mechanisms and expanded Chinese commitments to b... (more story)
US trade court upholds Commerce review on quartz tariffs
May 15, 2026
| Zack Budryk
The US Court of International Trade sided with the Commerce Department in a Thursday ruling, upholding its final administrative review results for antidumping and countervailing duty orders for Chinese quartz ... (more story)
US, China agree on AI safeguards for advanced models during Trump state visit (update*)
May 15, 2026
| MLex Staff
China and the US agreed to establish shared guardrails for advanced AI models during US President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing, marking a rare area of technology cooperation despite ongoing disputes o... (more story)
China's Xi urges wider US cooperation, warns on Taiwan at Trump summit
May 14, 2026
| MLex Staff
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for expanded cooperation and communication with the US across areas including trade, healthcare and agriculture during talks with visiting US President Donald Trump in Beiji... (more story)
Ruling against US Section 122 tariffs temporarily blocked by appeals court
May 13, 2026
| Zack Budryk
A federal appeals court sided partially with the US government Tuesday, temporarily blocking a lower court’s ruling that the government’s use of Section 122 to impose tariffs was unlawful.