World Bank President David Malpass discussed altering the methodology of a high-profile report ranking countries’ business climates in ways that threatened to hurt China’s standing.

The Commerce Department must revisit duty rates on certain entries of steel pipes and tubes from South Korea, after a federal trade court on Thursday faulted the department’s conclusion that a “particular market situation” distorted production costs.

The Biden administration is pressuring companies involved in the semiconductor supply chain to be more transparent as the global chips shortage continues to wreak havoc across many industries, officials said.

The International Trade Commission said it will review a judge’s findings that DuPont and its subsidiary Rohm & Haas are infringing a patent owned by Cabot Microelectronics for chemical mechanical planarization slurries used in chip-making.

Members of the American Institute of Steel Construction lost their challenge to a trade commission decision that prevented the U.S. from imposing trade remedy duties on billions of dollars worth of fabricated structural steel from Canada, Mexico, and China, a federal trade court said Wednesday.

Three U.S. manufacturers are challenging a trade court decision leading to lower duties on certain imports of steel pipes and tubes from South Korea, arguing to the Federal Circuit that the Commerce Department’s original approach to addressing a “particular market situation” was lawful.