Tag: Agriculture
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Brussels locks in anti-dumping duties of 40.5 to 67.1 percent on Chinese pea protein for five years, hardening a precedent that treats functional food ingredients as strategic industrial goods. BRUSSELS, September 27, 2026 The European Commission has imposed definitive anti-dumping duties of between 40.5 percent and 67.1 percent on imports of pea protein originating in…
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India and New Zealand exchanged ratification instruments on Monday and set 20 October as the date their free trade agreement takes effect. India secures duty-free access for all of its exports from day one; New Zealand gets 57 per cent of its export lines immediately, rising toward 95 per cent. NEW DELHI / WELLINGTON, 21…
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Canada Gazette publication puts the Trade Tribunal’s safeguard report on the public record, laying out a three-year quota and surtaxes of up to 50 per cent on canned vegetable imports OTTAWA, September 20, 2026 The formal notice of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s safeguard report on vegetable imports appeared in the Canada Gazette on September…
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Washington and Beijing weigh reciprocal tariff cuts on roughly $30 billion in farm goods, energy and manufacturing inputs as Xi Jinping prepares for a Sept. 24 White House visit, with the survival of the one-year trade truce riding on the outcome. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. American and Chinese negotiators are discussing a package of mutual…
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India-EU free trade agreement draft text opens India’s car, wine and farm markets through carefully rationed tariff-rate quotas, resetting the terms of engagement between two of the world’s largest trading powers NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 India and the European Union have pulled back the curtain on the most consequential market-access bargain either side has…
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Brasilia threatens reciprocal measures and leans on a favorable audit as the European Union’s suspension of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey enters its second week, putting up to 2 billion dollars in annual trade at risk. BRASILIA, Sept. 14, 2026 The most consequential trade rupture between the European Union and Latin America this year…
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The European Commission has asked EU member states to sign off on the bloc’s first Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement with a Latin American country, moving the EU-Ecuador SIFA to the Council for signature and conclusion and adding another building block to Brussels’ rapidly expanding Latin America trade agenda. BRUSSELS, September 11, 2026. The European Commission…
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Brazil weighs retaliation and a WTO challenge as the EU’s antimicrobial suspension of beef, poultry, eggs and honey enters its second week, straining a Mercosur trade pact that is barely four months old. BRASILIA, September 12, 2026. Ten days into the European Union’s suspension of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the two sides remain…
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Brussels has cut off Brazilian beef, poultry, egg and honey imports over antibiotic standards just as Mercosur’s own beef producers remain locked in a bitter fight over how to divide their shared European quota. BRASILIA, September 11, 2026 A week after the European Union formally suspended imports of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the…