‘Ivanka was granted 5 trademarks in China’

Ivanka Trump was granted five business trademarks in China earlier in May, just days before her father suddenly scrapped a U.S. technology ban imposed on Chinese telecom firm ZTE, according to government documents. The trademark approvals were dated May 7, a week before President Donald Trump extended an olive branch on ZTE.

Chinese government documents revealing the trademarks were first publicised by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The U.S. watchdog said the approvals, and other Trump family business connections to China, “raised potential ethics issues”.

The applications had been submitted in March 2017 and give Ms. Ivanka’s company trademark rights on goods including bath mats, textiles and baby blankets. She serves as an adviser to her father yet still profits from her various branded products, of which China is a major supplier.