Tag: China Trade
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Europe doubled its out of quota steel duty to 50 percent in July, but a first come first served allocation rule is letting Chinese seamless tube clear at an effective 22.53 percent, and the mills that lobbied for the regime have noticed BRUSSELS, October 26, 2026 – The European Union’s new steel safeguard was designed…
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India reimposes anti-dumping duties of 460 to 681 dollars a tonne on Chinese titanium dioxide for five years, 13 months after the Calcutta High Court struck down the same levy, and the paint industry that won in court has lost on the merits NEW DELHI, October 26, 2026 – India has reimposed anti-dumping duties on…
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Beijing puts full-face tunnel boring machines, heavy dredger components and a wider band of drone hardware under dual-use export licensing from 18 November, and writes a two-tier approval test that turns on whether a buyer’s government has a dispute with China BEIJING, 20 OCTOBER 2026 China has placed the machinery that digs the world’s metro…
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Trump suspends the Graham Act’s 100 percent secondary tariffs, handing India and China a reprieve while Treasury Secretary Bessent blames Europe for refusing to share the burden WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 19, 2026 President Donald Trump has suspended the tariff and sanctions machinery of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, pulling back…
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Senior European officials set out their reading of the October understandings with Beijing as reporting puts a 350,000 unit annual ceiling on Chinese hybrid vehicle exports to the bloc, alongside exploratory tariff cuts worth roughly 225 million euros in duty savings on 4 billion euros of European exports. BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 19, 2026 European Commission President…
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Beijing proposes adding 40 artificial intelligence, solar and biomedicine technologies to its export control catalogue, imposes an immediate registration requirement on exporters of the newly listed items, and gives the world until 15 November to comment on a regime that reaches further up the technology stack than any previous Chinese measure. BEIJING, OCTOBER 19, 2026…
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EU leaders open a two-day European Council with Chinese import volumes at the top of the agenda, draft conclusions instructing the Commission to build new trade instruments, and a Franco-German paper pushing chemicals and PET plastic to the front of the queue BRUSSELS, October 15, 2026: The twenty-seven heads of state and government of the…
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Beijing says rare earth licences for Europe will keep flowing regardless of the US trade truce, and asks the bloc to reciprocate on dual-use approvals BEIJING, October 16, 2026 – China’s Ministry of Commerce has confirmed that it will continue approving rare earth export licences for European Union buyers irrespective of the state of its…
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EU leaders order work on a market-exclusion instrument as the bloc’s China deficit heads past 400 billion euros and Franco-German patience runs out BRUSSELS, October 16, 2026 – European Union leaders have instructed the European Commission to draft a trade instrument capable of shutting foreign goods out of the single market altogether, the most far-reaching…
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France, Germany and Italy press Brussels for sector-wide import quotas on chemicals, PET and glass fibre as the European industry calls this its worst crisis in three decades BRUSSELS, October 16, 2026 – The European Union’s three largest economies have pushed the chemicals and plastics sector to the front of the bloc’s trade agenda, securing…