Tag: Automotive
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Brussels asks Beijing to hold Chinese plug-in hybrids to 15 per cent of the European market or face a new duty investigation, after shipments rose from 3,800 vehicles a month to 50,000 in under two years BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union has asked China to impose a voluntary ceiling on exports of hybrid…
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Ankara has not appealed the World Trade Organization ruling on its tariffs against Chinese cars. Instead it has gone to Beijing for more time, and a domestic political row has broken out over the bill ANKARA, September 17, 2026. Turkey’s Ministry of Trade has confirmed that it is negotiating with China to extend the deadline…
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Brussels asks Beijing to cap Chinese hybrid car sales at around 15 per cent of the European market or face duties, reviving a managed trade instrument last used against Japan in the 1980s BRUSSELS, September 17, 2026. The European Union has asked China to voluntarily limit sales of Chinese built hybrid cars in the European…
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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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Washington escalates from 50 per cent Section 338 duties to outright import bans on Canadian dairy, alcoholic beverages and motor vehicles, leaving exporters roughly two weeks to clear the border before market access closes on September 29. OTTAWA, September 11, 2026 Canadian exporters of cheese, whisky and motorcycles are now working against a hard calendar…
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Brussels dispatches technical delegation to Beijing as an October deadline for trade rebalancing collides with a deepening standoff over subsidy probes, rare earths and a record one billion euro a day deficit BRUSSELS, Aug. 26: A team of European Union officials will travel to China in the coming days in an attempt to salvage trade…
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Brussels and Beijing enter the final stretch before an October deadline with the electric vehicle minimum price mechanism only half built, Chinese duties still collecting on European pork, dairy and brandy, and a new fight over investigative jurisdiction poisoning the well. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The most consequential number published in the China-EU trade file…
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President Trump pledges to raise tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel to 50 percent on January 1, an escalation that American automakers, steel consumers, and editorial boards warn will land hardest on the United States itself WASHINGTON, August 25, 2026. President Donald Trump on Monday pledged to raise United States tariffs on…
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Trump doubles the tariff on Canadian vehicles, parts and trucks to 50 per cent effective January 1, 2027, extending the rate to steel and setting up a decisive year for a sector that employs roughly one in ten Ontario manufacturing workers WINDSOR, Ontario, August 25, 2026 President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United…
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A four million tonne steel quota at 25 per cent, aluminum halved, autos cut to 15 per cent and lumber left dangling. Inside the metals and vehicles package Ottawa had all but signed, and the reasons Canadian industry told the Prime Minister to walk away from it. TORONTO, AUGUST 24, 2026 For about 72 hours…