Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China is a Chinese government ministry responsible for formulating and implementing national policies on international trade, foreign investment, and domestic commerce and consumption. Its functions include trade negotiations, trade remedies and anti-dumping investigations, foreign investment regulation, and market circulation policy.www.mofcom.gov.cn
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Sep 13, 2026
Kyungjin KimHOST
U.S. agencies like the NSA and FBI are straight up calling this industrial scale theft.
Kyungjin KimHOST
But then China's Ministry of Commerce defends it as a universal learning technique.
Kyungjin KimHOST
They're even threatening retaliation if their firms are penalized.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Well, there are legal loopholes on both sides here.
TonyHOST
The most significant development is a proposed reciprocal tariff reduction covering approximately 30 billion US dollars of goods from each country.
TonyHOST
China's Ministry of Commerce said economic teams were working to implement the consensus reached by Xi and the U.S. president during their previous meeting in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
TonyHOST
Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling said the two sides hoped to reach an agreement, quote, at the earliest possible date, end quote, raising the possibility that an agreement could be prepared for announcement during Xi's visit.
TonyHOST
China is also accelerating purchases of American agricultural products.
Wang TianyuCORRESPONDENT
and they will keep investing here in China in the next five years, because the market has something they see great potential, and that's why he flew all the way from Europe to attend this event.
Wang TianyuCORRESPONDENT
And according to a bulletin jointly released by China's Ministry of Commerce and UN Trade and Development on Wednesday at the fair, in 2025, over 70,000 new foreign-invested enterprises were set up here in China, and that is a year-on-year increase of over 19%.
Wang TianyuCORRESPONDENT
the high-tech sector attracted over 32% of the total FDI inflows.
Wang TianyuCORRESPONDENT
So last year, CFIT sealed over 1,150 projects.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to restrict the spread of technical expertise, too.
Patrick BoyleHOST
In 2023, they banned the export of rare art processing technology and, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, China's Ministry of Commerce began requiring rare art firms to register technical staff and collect their passports, effectively limiting their ability to travel abroad, even for personal reasons like holidays.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The policy targets workers involved in rare earth processing and in magnet manufacturing.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The goal is to prevent leaks of sensitive technical knowledge and maintain China's strategic advantage in rare earth technologies.
Agatha KratzGUEST
And so having, much as the US is having at the moment, a very open dialogue with Beijing and making sure that there are channels of communication not cooperation, but coordination and communication, constantly open to manage those tensions, right? And this is exactly what's happening at the moment.
Agatha KratzGUEST
We see that dialogue has been created between Digitrade and the Ministry of Commerce, that is Commissioner Sefcovic and Wang Wentao, who are meeting on a regular basis and have their teams meeting on a regular basis to make sure things don't get out of hand.
Agatha KratzGUEST
And much as the US as well, the creation of a sort of board of trade in Europe or an equivalent of it to say, within the relationship, there are parts that are going to be tensed and we both know it and things are going to simmer and they're going to kind of get heated at some point in time.
Agatha KratzGUEST
But let's also have a positive dialogue about places in the relationship where we can potentially lower tariffs, potentially do even more together.
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China AI names sold off without a specific catalyst, though several factors weighed.
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US-China tech tensions intensified after China's Ministry of Commerce threatened retaliation over distillation-related sanctions.
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Huawei and Cambercon raised processor prices by at least 20%, citing memory cost pressures.
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And concerns mounted over EPS dilution as China AI firms pursue equity raises to fund CapEx.
Shane BigghamHOST
China and the United States are holding consultations on a $30 billion US dollar reciprocal tariff reduction framework.
Shane BigghamHOST
The Chinese Commerce Ministry says the two countries' economic and trade teams are implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state at their meeting in Beijing.
Shane BigghamHOST
A ministry spokesperson says the teams are working to finalize the framework and put it into effect as soon as possible.
Shane BigghamHOST
Chinese and U.S. law enforcement agencies have jointly cracked a transnational case involving precursor chemicals used to manufacture synthetic cannabinoids.
Shane BigghamHOST
China and the United States are holding consultations on a US$30 billion reciprocal tariff reduction framework.
Shane BigghamHOST
The Chinese Commerce Ministry says the two countries' economic and trade teams are implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state at their meeting in Beijing.
Shane BigghamHOST
A ministry spokesperson says the teams are working to finalize the framework and put it into effect as soon as possible.
Shane BigghamHOST
Foreign travel to China continued to rise through the first eight months of the year.
Wang MengjieCORRESPONDENT
This includes the latest developments in areas including financial technology and smart healthcare.
Wang MengjieCORRESPONDENT
China's Ministry of Commerce data noted that its service trade posted a solid performance in the first half of 2026, with total services imports and exports reaching 3.8 trillion yuan, or about 560 billion U.S. dollars, up 8.3 percent year-on-year.
Wang MengjieCORRESPONDENT
Service exports in particular rose 17.6%, emerging as a key driver of foreign trade growth.
Wang MengjieCORRESPONDENT
This five-day event offers opportunities for all participants to sell and showcase their quality services.
ColinHOST
And to better understand this, US Treasury officials, including Secretary Besent, argued that China's massive trade surplus harms domestic factory workers and businesses, and suggests that nations should consider new trade barriers to handle the flood of cheap imports, and further increase pressure on Beijing to stop giving such large subsidies to its domestic manufacturing sectors.
ColinHOST
In response, China's Ministry of Commerce denied any unfair economic imbalance and stated that using global forums to criticize Chinese manufacturing is a form of protectionism designed to hold its economy back.
ColinHOST
So Miles, based on what we know, if Beijing does not change course in its economic strategy to address these issues of overcapacity, what would be the long-term impact on the global economy? And given that China's trade surplus is reaching a breaking point in and of itself, how long can they realistically hold out here?
Miles YuHOST
Well, we'll see.
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