CSI's China Working Group monitors trade issues including China's implementation of its WTO commitments. The Working Group sponsors a range of contacts in the People's Republic of China with the goal of developing a Chinese counterpart to the CSI and joint programs with Chinese organizations. CSI will also continue to seek further liberalization of trade in China's services industries.

January 26, 2010: CSI signs onto an association letter to the Cabinet on PRC Indigenous Innovation Policies.

December 10, 2009: CSI joins several other associations in a letter calling for the Chinese government not to move forward on its Indigenous Innovation Accreditation Policy.

October 26, 2009: Meeting of Coalition of Service Industries and China Association of Trade in Services

October 2, 2009: CSI President Bob Vastine testified in front of USTR's Trade Policy Staff Committee on China's compliance with its WTO commitments.

June 26, 2009: CSI has joined with 21 other leading industry groups in a letter to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, expressing concern about new Chinese regulations to require the installation of "Green Dam" Internet filtering software on computers sold in China. 

June 12, 2009: CSI submits recommendations for the U.S.- China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT).

March 1, 2007: Statement by the Coalition of Service Industries on China's Implementation of WTO Commitments Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Hearing.

September 14, 2006: CSI President Bob Vastine submits a statement for a Trade Policy Committee hearing on China's WTO compliance.

March 21, 2006: CSI highlights its priorities for the April JCCT Plenary session in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the USTR.

October 18, 2005: CSI Chairman Norman Sorensen reinforces message of free trade in his letter to the China World Cities Service Industries Convention in Wuxi.

October 3, 2005: CSI sends a letter to Timothy Stratford, the new Assistant USTR for China Affairs, to suggest including our members' issues in the agenda for the US-China telecom dialogue. The dialogue was launched at the last Plenary Meeting of the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) in July.

September 14, 2005: CSI President Bob Vastine testifies before the Trade Policy Staff Committee Hearing and underlines China's continued WTO compliance issues.

September 7, 2005: CSI submits statement for the Trade Policy Staff Committee Hearing on China's WTO compliance.

June 13, 2005: Norman Sorensen’s statement at the plenary panel "WTO and the Global Economy: Maximizing the Benefits and Sustaining Growth" Pacific Basin Economic Council Conference in Hong Kong.

June 9, 2005: Norman Sorensen’s statement "Services Trade Development in Economic Globalization" at the Forum "World Trade in Services: Opening, Cooperation, Development" in Shanghai.

World Services Trade Forum in Shanghai,
June 9-10, 2005: China's Ministry of Commerce and the Shanghai Municipal Government will hold the Industry Forum "World Trade in Services: Opening, Cooperation, Development." CSI and services associations from Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, and Japan are among the Forum's supporting organizations. The Forum will discuss current trends in global services trade, objectives for WTO services negotiations, and China’s participation in these negotiations. Forum speakers will include Chinese State Council’s Vice Premier Wu Yi, WTO Director General Supachai Panitchpakdi, Commerce Minister Bo Xilai and other high level representatives from the government and private sector. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.sccwto.net:7001/wto/smlt/english/index.htm.

April 28, 2005: USCSI Statement to the Ways and Means Committee on China's WTO Compliance.

Archives of China Working Group Documents and Activities.