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Brussels locks in five years of anti-dumping duties on purified terephthalic acid from South Korea and Mexico, redrawing the feedstock map for Europe’s PET bottle, packaging and polyester industries. BRUSSELS, August 16, 2026 The European Union has closed out one of the most consequential chemical trade cases of the year, imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on…
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Brazil activates its Economic Reciprocity Law for the first time, opening a formal Camex procedure that could lead to countermeasures against 25 percent US tariffs even as Brasilia insists the door to negotiation remains open. BRASILIA, August 16, 2026 Brazil set in motion the most consequential trade defense mechanism in its modern history on Thursday,…
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Beijing renews anti-dumping duties of 7.4 to 30.6 percent on Indian single-mode optical fiber for another five years, pushing a trade remedy first imposed in 2014 out to 2031 even as a global fiber shortage rewrites the economics of the industry it protects. BEIJING, August 16, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday, August…
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Mexico’s Economy Secretariat is scrambling to reverse China’s provisional anti-dumping duties on pecans before they harden into definitive measures, with a 10-day response window already running. MEXICO CITY, August 14, 2026. Mexico’s federal government has opened a determined diplomatic and procedural counteroffensive against China this week, working to prevent Beijing’s newly imposed provisional anti-dumping duties…
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More than 40 economies from Brussels to Seoul to New Delhi have been flagged by a new White House report as elevated-risk hubs for China-linked transshipment, putting their exporters on notice that every US-bound shipment may now face deeper customs scrutiny. A 25-Page Report Redraws the Compliance Map SEOUL, August 14, 2026. Exporters across more…
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Canberra and New South Wales have committed A$2.5 billion over a decade to keep Australia’s largest aluminium smelter alive, a bailout that lays bare the accelerating global race to subsidise strategic metals. SYDNEY, August 13, 2026. Australia’s federal government and the New South Wales state government on Thursday jointly announced a rescue package worth A$2.5…
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China locks in another five years of anti-dumping duties on Indian single-mode optical fiber, extending a trade barrier first erected in 2014 and now set to run through 2031. BEIJING, August 14, 2026. China will keep anti-dumping duties in place on imports of single-mode optical fiber originating from India for another five years, the country’s…
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India’s trade remedies authority is running one of its busiest anti-dumping dockets in memory this August, with hearings, recommendations and new probes overwhelmingly targeting Chinese goods across chemicals, steel, electronics and pharmaceuticals. NEW DELHI, August 14, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies convened an oral hearing on Friday afternoon in its anti-dumping investigation into…
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China’s formal request to join Brazil’s WTO challenge to Washington’s forced-labor tariffs has turned a bilateral complaint into a test of whether the multilateral trading system can still discipline unilateral trade measures at all. GENEVA, August 12, 2026, China has formally asked to join the World Trade Organization consultations that Brazil opened against the United…
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China’s Ministry of Commerce has extended anti-dumping duties of 7.4 to 30.6 percent on Indian single-mode optical fibre for a further five years, prolonging one of the longest-running trade remedy disputes between the two Asian giants into its second decade. BEIJING, August 14, 2026 China’s anti-dumping duties on single-mode optical fibre from India entered a…