South Korea’s fast-expanding chemical trade-defense docket hit both Chinese and European suppliers this week, as a definitive duty on European PVC paste resin took effect and new records documented a finalized levy on Chinese butyl acrylate. SEOUL, August 6, 2026 – South Korea’s campaign to shield its embattled chemical producers from cheap imports reached a…
Riyadh imposes definitive anti-dumping duties of up to 29.94 percent on Indian ductile iron pipes for five years, striking at one of India’s strongest engineering export lines just as Saudi Arabia’s water infrastructure boom reaches full speed. RIYADH, August 6, 2026 – Saudi Arabia has slapped definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of ductile iron pipes…
Eurasian Economic Commission terminates its antidumping investigation into Caspian polypropylene without duties after Russian petitioners Sibur and Nizhnekamskneftekhim withdraw their complaint, preserving duty-free access for Azerbaijani and Turkmen resin. MOSCOW, August 5, 2026 The Eurasian Economic Commission has terminated, without imposing any duties, its antidumping investigation into imports of polypropylene and propylene copolymers from Azerbaijan…
Saudi Arabia locks in five-year antidumping duties of up to 29.94 percent on Indian ductile iron pipes, a decision that reverberates through the Kingdom’s water infrastructure buildout and the order books of the world’s dominant pipe exporting nation. By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | peacocktariffconsulting.com | August 5, 2026 RIYADH, August 5, 2026. Saudi…
America’s 100 percent pharmaceutical tariff is now the law of the land for the industry’s biggest names, and the rest of the sector has eight weeks to find shelter before the same duty lands on them WASHINGTON, August 4, 2026. The most aggressive sector-specific tariff in modern American trade history is no longer a threat,…
One month into the European Union’s toughest steel import regime in decades, quotas are draining fast, a product scope review is underway, and trading partners from Ankara to Seoul to New Delhi are counting the cost. BRUSSELS, August 4, 2026 – The European Union’s new steel import regime enters August with its first full month…
Ottawa’s 25 per cent provisional safeguard on imported wood cabinets and vanities lands on a battered domestic industry, and importers now have days, not months, to rebuild their landed-cost models OTTAWA, August 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada’s kitchen cabinet industry spent the first working days of August absorbing something it has not had…
The emirate more than triples its duty-free ceiling for cross-border e-commerce parcels to AED 1,000, a liberalizing outlier in a year when Washington, Brussels and much of the world slammed the small-parcel door shut DUBAI, Aug. 3, 2026. Dubai opened the week by making its border cheaper to cross, at the precise moment much of…
Southern Africa’s customs union opens a sweeping safeguard investigation into cold-rolled flat steel, positioning the five-nation bloc as the newest trade defence flashpoint in a world awash with surplus metal and diverted cargoes. Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk PRETORIA, Aug. 3, 2026. The Southern African Customs Union has opened one of the most…
Brussels closes a yearlong trade defence case with definitive anti-dumping duties of 60 percent to 67.5 percent on Chinese polyamide yarn, redrawing the sourcing map for spinners, knitters and apparel brands on three continents. BRUSSELS, Aug. 3, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk The European Union has raised one of the steepest…