China Extends Probe Into US Barriers to Green Product Trade to Dec 27

The extension signals that Beijing sees the case as legally and politically intricate enough to keep alive rather than resolve, which matters for clean-tech and critical-minerals supply chains where both sides have leverage. It is a procedural move, not a market event, but it sustains a channel for potential retaliation or negotiation over green goods. Whether the probe stays a pressure tool or becomes the basis for concrete measures is the open question to watch.