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India’s trade remedies watchdog opened four anti-dumping investigations in a single day, three of them aimed squarely at China, as New Delhi confronts a record trade deficit with Beijing and a global glut of redirected Chinese exports. NEW DELHI, August 18, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) initiated four new anti-dumping investigations on…
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China has locked in a third five-year term for anti-dumping duties of 7.4 percent to 30.6 percent on Indian single-mode optical fibre, extending a trade barrier first raised in 2014 into a physical-layer market that has flipped from glut to shortage. BEIJING, August 18, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce has renewed anti-dumping duties on imports…
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Indonesia launches an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese superabsorbent polymers, the workhorse chemical inside diapers and sanitary products, after a petition from PT Nippon Shokubai Indonesia JAKARTA, August 18, 2026 Indonesia has opened a new front in its expanding campaign against allegedly underpriced Chinese industrial goods, this time targeting the obscure but commercially vital chemical that…
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American negotiators are refusing to lower softwood lumber duties that now sit near 45 percent, sources say, turning Canada’s oldest trade grievance into the loudest political fight of the final hours before Wednesday’s tariff deadline. VANCOUVER, August 18, 2026 As Canadian and American negotiators race toward Wednesday’s 50 percent tariff deadline, one file has emerged…
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Automotive rules have become the rock on which a Canada-U.S. trade deal keeps foundering, with Washington demanding an end to Canadian auto retaliation, Ottawa chasing relief from a 25 percent vehicle tariff, and an Ontario assembly plant hanging in the balance. WASHINGTON, August 18, 2026 If the last minute negotiations to head off Wednesday’s 50…
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White House names more than 40 countries in a Chinese “shadow transshipment network” and unveils an AI-powered enforcement system, putting importers worldwide on notice that tariff evasion now carries a price tag WASHINGTON, August 17, 2026 — The Trump administration has opened a new front in its tariff war, and this one is aimed not…
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Federal trade court upholds the president’s elimination of the $800 de minimis exemption, cementing duties on billions of low-value parcels and handing the White House a rare win on emergency tariff powers WASHINGTON, August 17, 2026 — The era of duty-free small parcels is not coming back. In a decision handed down August 13 and…
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White House imposes Section 232 tariffs of up to 100 percent on imported drones and components, setting a September 3 deadline that will reshape the American uncrewed aircraft market WASHINGTON, August 17, 2026 — The United States is preparing to erect the steepest trade barrier ever placed around its drone market. In a presidential proclamation…
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Trump signs a Section 232 proclamation putting duties of up to 100 percent on imported unmanned aircraft, with a September 3 effective date that leaves importers three weeks to reclassify, requalify or absorb the cost WASHINGTON, August 16, 2026. President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing tariffs of up to 100 percent on imported…
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The Court of International Trade rules that IEEPA authorized the president to rescind the $800 duty-free threshold, drawing a line between eliminating an exemption and imposing a tariff, and closing the last realistic path to reviving the loophole NEW YORK, August 16, 2026. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of International Trade has…