Three weeks into the EU’s 50 percent out-of-quota steel duty, exporters from Tokyo to Seoul are counting the cost, importers are racing quota clocks, and Beijing is warning of a response International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: Three weeks after the European Union switched on the most…
Brussels warns that dialogue alone will not suffice as it readies unilateral safeguards, quotas and duties on Chinese imports ahead of an October deadline, hours after Beijing posts a record trade surplus International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 14, 2026 The European Union will impose unilateral trade defense measures on Chinese imports…

The United States moved to open a sweeping new front in its trade agenda this week, with the U.S. Trade Representative determining that 60 economies together accounting for the overwhelming majority of America’s imports have failed to ban and enforce prohibitions on goods made with forced labor, and proposing additional tariffs of up to 12.5%…