Tag: China Trade
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Vietnam extends anti-dumping duties of up to 54.9 per cent on polyester filament yarn from China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia for a further five years, locking in a cost structure that reshapes sourcing for one of the world’s largest garment exporters HANOI, October 15, 2026: Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has extended anti-dumping duties…
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Five EU member states have asked the European Commission to act against rising imports of polyethylene terephthalate, starting a thirty-day clock on a decision that would put the bloc’s most heavily traded commodity resin under a quantitative instrument for the first time BRUSSELS, October 15, 2026: Five European Union member states have formally requested that…
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EU leaders open a two-day Brussels summit with China at the top of the agenda, a 360 billion euro goods deficit behind them and draft conclusions that instruct the Commission to use its trade defence arsenal in full and to build new instruments on top of it BRUSSELS, October 15, 2026: The twenty-seven heads of…
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A 6,565 tonne chemical nobody outside the dye industry has heard of became Beijing’s opening move five days before the European trade commissioner landed BEIJING, October 8, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce opened an anti-dumping investigation on Saturday, October 3, into imports of para-nitrotoluene originating in the European Union, a decision whose commercial stakes are…
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Macron and Merz want a Commission instrument that can sever a trading partner from 450 million consumers, approved unless a qualified majority says no BERLIN, PARIS and BRUSSELS, October 8, 2026 A two-page letter on two letterheads, dated only “Berlin, Paris, October 2026,” left for the Berlaymont on Monday, October 5. It carried the signatures…
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Sefcovic lands in Beijing with an October ultimatum, a one billion euro a day deficit and almost no leverage he has not already spent BRUSSELS and BEIJING, October 8, 2026 European Union Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic opened two days of talks with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing on Thursday, arriving with a deadline…
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Brussels wants London to match its duties on Chinese electric cars as the price of entry to the Buy European framework. The business secretary says the question is under closer review than almost anything else on his desk, and Britain’s exporters are watching Beijing. LONDON, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting The United Kingdom…
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France and Germany want Brussels to be able to shut Chinese goods out of the single market within 24 hours. China’s commerce ministry says the instrument would backfire. The European Parliament weighs in next week, and the Commission tables its package in December. BRUSSELS, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting The European Union is…
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Beijing opened an anti-dumping investigation into European p-nitrotoluene five days before the EU trade commissioner lands in the Chinese capital, turning an obscure dye and pharmaceutical intermediate into leverage at a make-or-break negotiation. BEIJING / BRUSSELS, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting China’s Ministry of Commerce opened an anti-dumping investigation on Saturday into imports…
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Washington and Beijing name 1,696 product lines for mutual tariff relief and European exporters read the list with alarm, because much of what the Americans are about to sell more cheaply into China is what Europe already sells there BRUSSELS, September 30, 2026 The United States and China published the product lists underpinning their “30-for-30”…