Tag: Automotive
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Washington opened its second USMCA rapid response labor case in six days on Tuesday, targeting an automotive textile plant in Guanajuato, and ordered the Treasury to suspend liquidation on the factory’s shipments while Mexico decides whether to investigate WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative invoked the USMCA rapid response…
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The president told a Tennessee rally that an agreement with Mexico is close, but metals and auto tariffs, a rolling USMCA review and a narrowing pre-election calendar still stand between the pledge and a signed text. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11, 2026 – President Trump told supporters at a rally here on Saturday that a trade…
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Brussels leaves Beijing with a faster queue, not an open door. With the suspension of China’s second wave of export controls due to lapse on November 10, buyers in Europe, Japan, South Korea and India are budgeting for paperwork rather than plenty. BRUSSELS, October 14, 2026: European Union Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič returned from two…
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Beijing cuts the value-added tax export rebate on new energy vehicles to 9 percent from April 2027, pulling margin out of the trade that just grew 130 percent, and signalling that the era of subsidised volume is being wound down on purpose BEIJING, October 13, 2026 – China’s Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation…
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Brussels and Beijing settle on a 350,000-unit annual ceiling for Chinese hybrid cars, the bloc’s first hard quantitative limit on a Chinese manufactured good in a generation, and importers now have roughly eight weeks to rebuild their landed-cost models BRUSSELS, October 13, 2026 – The European Union and China have agreed to cap Chinese hybrid…
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A one-year suspension of China’s expanded export controls expires on 10 November, and Beijing’s fresh licensing pledge to Brussels has sharpened rather than settled the question of what happens next SHANGHAI, 12 October 2026 – The clock on the most consequential export control decision facing global manufacturing now reads four weeks. China’s suspension of the…
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Brussels and Beijing reach an understanding that would halve Chinese hybrid exports to Europe, easing a safeguard threat days before an EU leaders’ summit BEIJING, 12 October 2026 – The European Union and China have reached an understanding that would cut Chinese hybrid vehicle exports to the bloc by roughly half, defusing for now the…
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China commits to a green channel for rare earth and permanent magnet export licences bound for Europe. The concession is real, the published detail is thin, and European manufacturers have learned to price licensing risk. BEIJING and BRUSSELS, October 11, 2026 China has committed to continue facilitating export licence approvals for rare earth elements and…
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Brussels has turned a hurriedly negotiated Beijing understanding into what officials describe as a safeguard quota on Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars, with reports putting the first-year ceiling at 350,000 vehicles from December. EU leaders meet on October 15 to 16 to decide whether it holds, and the two capitals are already describing the…
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Tesla has stopped taking orders for its cheapest Canadian Model 3 after exhausting its share of the 49,000 vehicle Chinese import quota, even though roughly two thirds of the national allocation remains unspent TORONTO, OCTOBER 14, 2026 Tesla has suspended orders in Canada for the Shanghai built Model 3 Premium, telling customers that demand has…