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New Delhi opens a countervailing duty investigation into Chinese PVC suspension resin and advances a parallel anti-dumping case on thick polyester film, deepening a trade defence programme that now touches nearly half of India’s polymer imports NEW DELHI, 20 August 2026 India’s trade remedy authority moved on two fronts on Wednesday against imports that its…
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Seoul’s trade commission moves against Chinese and Taiwanese caustic soda with duties of up to 38.89 percent, and opens a fresh probe into Chinese printing plates, as South Korea’s chemical sector turns to trade defence SEOUL, 20 August 2026 South Korea’s trade watchdog said on Thursday it will recommend that the finance ministry impose anti-dumping…
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Beijing orders Chinese firms not to cooperate with Brussels over the JD.com bid for Germany’s Ceconomy, the second blocking order in four months and a direct challenge to the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation BRUSSELS, 20 August 2026 China has forbidden its companies and citizens from assisting a European Union investigation into JD.com’s proposed acquisition of…
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Britain slaps provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 71.74 percent on Chinese boom lifts, opening a new front in the widening global scramble to wall off Chinese industrial exports LONDON, 20 August 2026 Britain moved on Thursday to shield a single Milton Keynes manufacturer from a flood of low-priced Chinese aerial work platforms, imposing provisional…
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Carney has asked premiers to return American alcohol to liquor store shelves and stop excluding the United States from procurement, dismantling the retaliation that Washington converted into a legal finding of discrimination CHARLOTTETOWN, August 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney used a virtual first ministers meeting on Wednesday to ask every province and territory to…
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Negotiators have sketched a tentative arrangement cutting Section 232 steel and aluminium duties to 25 per cent and auto tariffs to 15 per cent, but derivative products, exclusions and aluminium traceability remain unresolved WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 The most commercially significant element of the emerging Canada-United States trade arrangement is not the 50 per cent…
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Washington shelved a 50 per cent tariff on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods with less than two hours to spare, but no legal text has been published and the reprieve expires Saturday OTTAWA, August 20, 2026 The first tariff in nearly a century imposed under Section 338 of the United States Tariff Act of…
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Africa welcomes the US Senate’s two-year extension of duty-free trade, but industry leaders warn that Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs have hollowed out the program’s biggest benefits WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Relief is rippling across sub-Saharan Africa this week as governments and exporters digest the US Senate’s decision to extend the African Growth…
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Los Angeles posts its second-busiest July on record as importers race tariff deadlines, but the early peak season is running out of cargo to pull forward SAN PEDRO, Calif., Aug. 19, 2026 – The Port of Los Angeles moved 960,464 twenty-foot equivalent units in July, the second-busiest July in its 119-year history, port officials announced…
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Mexico presses Washington to slash Section 232 auto tariffs and rewrite content rules as the USMCA review heads toward a decisive fourth round WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Mexico is mounting its most aggressive push yet to dismantle the tariff wall that the United States has built around the North American auto industry, pressing the…