Japan’s first anti-dumping duties on a mainstream steel product completed their first full week of collection as Korean producers filed formal rebuttals and the global steel trade absorbed the signal from one of the world’s most reluctant users of trade remedies. TOKYO, August 16, 2026. One week after Japanese customs officers began collecting the country’s…
China’s provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 54.3 percent on American pecans and up to 51.6 percent on Mexican pecans turn a niche nut trade into the newest, and most revealing, front in the widening tariff standoff between Beijing and Mexico City. BEIJING, August 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce has fired the latest shot…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Beijing orders provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 54.3 percent on American pecans and up to 51.6 percent on Mexican shipments, a preliminary ruling that redraws the map of the global nut trade and lands just ahead of an expected Xi-Trump summit. By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | peacocktariffconsulting.com BEIJING, August 13, 2026 –…
Softwood lumber emerges as the hardest file in the eleventh-hour Canada-US trade talks, as Washington resists relief on duties approaching 45 percent and Canadian mills absorb another season of curtailments OTTAWA, August 17, 2026 As Canadian and American negotiators worked through the weekend to head off sweeping new 50 percent tariffs set to take effect…