Tag: Import Duties
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India’s trade remedies authority closed fifteen anti-dumping cases and opened thirteen more in a single month, with China and South Korea the dominant targets across steel, glass fibre, solar and chemicals NEW DELHI, 20 September 2026 – India has spent September conducting what amounts to the most concentrated burst of trade remedy activity of any…
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Brussels reopens five-year-old anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled stainless from India and Indonesia at EUROFER’s request, keeping rates of up to 35.3 percent alive for at least another year and putting nickel-integrated Indonesian mills back under European scrutiny. BRUSSELS, September 20, 2026 The European Commission has initiated an expiry review of the anti-dumping duties it applies…
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Italy’s steel distribution association warns that service centres cannot pass on mill price increases and that European manufacturing faces progressive, irreversible weakening MILAN, 20 September 2026 – The clearest statement yet of what Europe’s steel trade policy is doing to the companies in the middle of the supply chain came this week not from Brussels…
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Product-level allocations published under the India and European Union free trade agreement show steel quotas roughly 300,000 tonnes below what New Delhi already holds under Brussels’ new import regime, and Indian mills are asking their government to reopen the numbers. NEW DELHI, September 20, 2026 The steel tariff-rate quotas negotiated under the free trade agreement…
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Europe’s carbon border charge has yet to show up fully in steel prices because pre-emptive stockpiles are still being worked off, and distributors say the reckoning is coming WARSAW, 20 September 2026 – The European carbon border levy has been law for long enough to have changed prices, and it has not changed them as…
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Indonesia’s anti-dumping committee opens an investigation into Chinese galvanised steel that supplied four fifths of a 2.56 million tonne import wave, joining Japan, Australia, Malaysia and Taiwan in a coated-steel enforcement cascade now running across Asia. JAKARTA, September 20, 2026 Indonesia has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imports of galvanised and zinc-coated steel sheet from…
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At a Warsaw industry meeting, European steel distributors call openly for the United States model of whole value chain protection and demand that Brussels commit to melt and pour origin rules WARSAW, 20 September 2026 – The European steel distribution sector has stopped arguing for open markets. At the EUROMETAL Regional Meeting Central Europe, held…
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The European Commission’s 44th annual trade defence report puts 232 measures in force at the end of 2025, covering roughly 637,000 manufacturing jobs, and reveals a surveillance apparatus built to catch trade diverted by other countries’ tariff walls. BRUSSELS, September 20, 2026 The European Union ended 2025 with 232 trade defence measures in force, opened…
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Brussels imposes emergency quotas and minimum import prices of up to 3,500 euros a tonne on electrical steel, transformer cores and laminations, protecting an entire value chain for the first time BRUSSELS, 20 September 2026 – The European Union has moved to rescue one of the last strategically critical steel products it still makes at…
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Europe’s new steel import regime has lifted domestic prices more than 16 per cent this year and pushed foreign competition down the value chain, where no tariff reaches it BRUSSELS, 19 September 2026 – The European Union set out in 2026 to defend its steelmakers, and by the measure it set itself the policy has…