The Embassy of France in Thailand has sought permission to import 10,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to inoculate French citizens living in the Southeast Asia nation, Deputy Premier and Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says on Friday after a meeting with Ambassador Thierry Mathou.

A workers’ strike at a pork plant in Quebec is allowing U.S meat packers, who are struggling to find enough domestic pigs, to make some Canadian bacon instead.

The U.S. allowed a dormant World Trade Organization dispute case against China’s alleged intellectual-property violations to lapse, marking the end of Washington’s only offensive WTO dispute against China during the Trump administration.

Two U.S. importers lost their challenge to tariffs on their goods from China, because the U.S. Court of International Trade said their failure to timely protest the tariffs meant it didn’t have jurisdiction over their claims.

The fine print in a supply contract among Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC, an import company, and Chinese tire maker Shandong Yongsheng Rubber Co. shows Shandong is subject to the jurisdiction of courts in Washington state in an accident suit, a federal court there said.

Tourmaline Oil Corp. agreed to acquire rival Black Swan Energy Ltd. for about C$1.1 billion ($910 million) as Canada’s largest natural-gas explorer eyes future exports of the heating and power plant fuel from the country’s west coast.