Tag: China


  • Pecan Duty Hit

    China has imposed provisional anti-dumping deposits of 17.8 to 54.3 percent on pecans from Mexico and the United States, sparing cooperating Mexican exporters the worst rates while effectively pricing American growers out of the market. BEIJING, Aug. 11, 2026 — China moved on Tuesday to impose provisional anti-dumping measures on fresh and dried pecans from…

  • UK PVC Probe

    Britain orders registration of suspension PVC imports from China, Mexico and South Korea, exposing shippers to possible backdated anti-dumping duties while a legacy steel measure quietly lapses. LONDON, August 11, 2026 British importers of suspension polyvinyl chloride woke up on Monday to a new layer of customs scrutiny, after HM Revenue and Customs confirmed that…

  • EU Wire Tariff

    Brussels imposes provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 102.4% on Chinese silico-manganese steel welding wire, forcing importers, distributors and fabricators across Europe to reprice a workhorse consumable almost overnight. BRUSSELS, August 11, 2026 The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 102.4% on imports of certain silico-manganese steel welding wire from China,…

  • China Nut Duty

    China imposes provisional anti-dumping deposits on pecans from the United States and Mexico, saddling non-responsive American exporters with a punishing 54.3 percent margin as collections begin at the border. BEIJING, August 11, 2026 Chinese Customs began collecting security deposits on imported pecans from the United States and Mexico on Tuesday, one day after the Ministry…

  • Silicon Squeeze

    President Trump’s new Section 232 order imposes a 15 percent tariff and unprecedented price floors on polysilicon imports, and a fight over how and when to collect the duties is already reshaping the solar and semiconductor supply chains WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2026 The Trump administration spent the weekend wrestling with how to implement one of…

  • Beijing Strikes

    China’s August 5 countermeasure package, spanning entity blacklistings, drone export curbs and a first-ever foreign trade national security probe into imported printers, is rippling far beyond Washington and into Asia-Pacific and European supply chains. BEIJING, August 10, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce unleashed a coordinated cluster of trade countermeasures on August 5, and five days…

  • Tokyo Steel Hit

    Japan has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of 29.2 percent to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare and forceful use of trade remedies by a country long known for restraint. TOKYO, August 10, 2026 Japan’s steel trade defenses, dormant for most of the postwar era, are now firmly in…

  • Steel Mesh Duty

    Australia’s provisional anti-dumping measure on welded steel mesh sheets from China took effect this weekend, adding a fresh layer of border costs to one of the construction sector’s most ubiquitous inputs while the underlying investigation, which also covers Malaysia, races toward its facts deadline. CANBERRA, August 9, 2026: Australia’s provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of…

  • Tokyo Steel Tax

    Japan has begun collecting provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, one of Tokyo’s most assertive uses of its trade remedy toolkit in years and a fresh signal that no major steel market intends to absorb Asia’s excess capacity without a fight. TOKYO, August 9,…

  • Brazil PVC Duty

    Brasilia renews its 21.6 percent anti-dumping duty on Chinese suspension PVC resin for up to five more years while the companion measure on South Korean resin stays terminated, cementing a split outcome in a trade defense case that has run for nearly two decades. BRASILIA, August 7, 2026 Brazil will keep its anti-dumping shield against…