China slaps preliminary anti-dumping deposits of 80.8 to 99.2 percent on Japanese dichlorosilane, a workhorse chipmaking gas, deepening a trade rift with Tokyo that now runs straight through the semiconductor supply chain. BEIJING, September 7, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce on Monday issued a preliminary anti-dumping ruling against dichlorosilane imported from Japan, finding that Japanese…
Russia nearly doubles its September export duty on sunflower oil, rattling global vegetable oil markets and raising costs for buyers from India to Georgia MOSCOW, August 29, 2026 Russia has set its export duty on sunflower oil at more than 14,300 rubles per tonne for September, nearly double the August rate and more than four…
Moscow sharply raises September export duties on sunflower oil and sunflower meal, nearly doubling the oil levy for the second consecutive month and rattling edible oil buyers from Mumbai to Istanbul. MOSCOW, August 28, 2026. Russia has announced a steep increase in export duties on sunflower oil, sunflower oil mixtures, and sunflower meal for September…
Russia’s Agriculture Ministry has raised the September export duty on sunflower meal more than sixfold, jolting a feed ingredient trade that stretches from Chinese hog farms to Turkish poultry integrators just as a record Russian sunflower harvest comes into view. MOSCOW, August 27, 2026. Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture on Monday announced a steep increase in…
Russia’s weekly floating levy on wheat and corn jumped again on 26 August, tightening the fiscal screw on exporters at the precise moment that war damage has closed most of the country’s Black Sea shipping capacity. MOSCOW, August 27, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Russia has raised its export duties on wheat, meslin and corn…
Beijing’s blocking order against Brussels’ foreign subsidies probe of JD.com’s bid for Germany’s Ceconomy escalates a widening contest over who writes the rules of global commerce, and it leaves multinational compliance teams standing in the crossfire. BEIJING, Aug. 19. China ordered companies and individuals on Wednesday to refuse cooperation with a European Union subsidy investigation…
The United Arab Emirates halts all trade, commercial exchange and financial transactions with Iran after missile fire in the Gulf, severing Tehran’s most important commercial lifeline and redrawing regional trade flows overnight DUBAI, Aug. 20, 2026 The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran on Wednesday, Aug. 19, cutting…
Beijing orders Chinese firms not to cooperate with Brussels over the JD.com bid for Germany’s Ceconomy, the second blocking order in four months and a direct challenge to the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation BRUSSELS, 20 August 2026 China has forbidden its companies and citizens from assisting a European Union investigation into JD.com’s proposed acquisition of…
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…
A temporary Commerce Department rule issued under Defense Production Act authority orders United States sellers of battery black mass and tungsten scrap to route all monthly sales to domestic buyers from August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has closed the export door on two recovered…