Brussels hits Chinese benzyl alcohol and sodium benzoate with steep provisional anti-dumping duties, opening a new chemicals front in Europe’s widening trade-defence campaign. BRUSSELS, July 29, 2026 – Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 116.4 percent on two workhorse industrial chemicals from China took effect across the European Union today, the latest and most pointed…
GECEX Resolution 941 lifts import duties on seven wire, fencing and construction steel lines to a flat 25 percent for twelve months BRASILIA, July 28, 2026 – Brazil has tightened the screws on steel imports once again. On 23 July the Executive Management Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber, known as GECEX/Camex, adopted Resolution No.…
India’s trade remedies agency pushed its revived resorcinol dumping case forward with twin procedural orders on July 25, keeping sole domestic producer Atul Ltd’s second bid in two years for renewed duties on Chinese and Japanese imports firmly on track. NEW DELHI, July 27, 2026: India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies moved its freshly revived…
Japan’s trade and finance ministries have preliminarily concluded that hot-dipped galvanized steel from China and South Korea was dumped at prices far below home-market levels, and they have extended the probe to December 12 while weighing duties. TOKYO, July 27, 2026: Japan moved a decisive step closer to imposing anti-dumping duties on one of the…
Brussels warns that dialogue alone will not suffice as it readies unilateral safeguards, quotas and duties on Chinese imports ahead of an October deadline, hours after Beijing posts a record trade surplus International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 14, 2026 The European Union will impose unilateral trade defense measures on Chinese imports…
South Korea locks in five-year anti-dumping tariffs of up to 31.55 percent on PVC paste resin from Germany, France, Norway and Sweden, a ruling that pits two embattled chemical industries against each other and signals a harder line from Seoul on low-priced imports SEOUL, July 10, 2026 South Korea’s finance ministry moved Friday to impose…
Japan begins collecting provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 42.1 percent on stainless steel from China and Taiwan, one of Tokyo’s most assertive trade remedy actions in years and a fresh fault line in Asia’s crowded steel trade International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting TOKYO, July 9, 2026 – Japan began collecting provisional anti-dumping duties…
The Hidden Tariff That Can Reach Triple Digits Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are calculated individually for each foreign producer and can range from single digits to several hundred percent. The retrospective nature means liability can change years after importation. How AD/CVD Duties Work The Department of Commerce determines dumping/subsidization and calculates rates. The ITC determines…