Japan and South Korea head into a decisive September with dueling anti-dumping duties on each other’s steel, as both scramble to wall off markets from a flood of cheap Chinese metal. TOKYO, SEPT. 14, 2026 Northeast Asia’s quiet steel war has reached its most consequential stretch of the year. As of this week, Japanese customs…
Beijing’s preliminary anti-dumping duties on Japanese dichlorosilane, up to 99.2 percent, threaten a critical input for global chipmaking amid an escalating diplomatic rift. BEIJING, September 11, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce has moved to squeeze a narrow but strategically vital corner of the global semiconductor supply chain, slapping steep preliminary anti-dumping duties on dichlorosilane imported…
Beijing imposes provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 99.2 percent on Japanese dichlorosilane, a workhorse chipmaking gas, deepening a trade confrontation that has already cut rare earth flows to Japan to zero and rattled semiconductor supply chains worldwide. BEIJING, September 10, 2026 China has opened a new front in its escalating economic campaign against Japan,…
Beijing imposes provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 99.2 percent on Japanese dichlorosilane, striking at a critical semiconductor input and raising the stakes in East Asia’s chip supply chain rivalry BEIJING, September 8, 2026 China began collecting provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 99.2 percent on imports of Japanese dichlorosilane on Monday, one day after…
China imposes provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 99.2 percent on Japanese dichlorosilane, a specialty gas critical to semiconductor manufacturing, deepening trade friction between Asia’s two largest economies BEIJING, September 8, 2026 China began collecting steep security deposits on imports of Japanese dichlorosilane on Monday, one day after the Ministry of Commerce announced a preliminary…
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…
Once among the world’s most reluctant users of trade remedies, Japan has stacked two provisional anti-dumping orders on imported steel in five weeks, launched a third sweeping probe, and armed itself with new anti-circumvention powers. A fresh legal analysis published this week frames the campaign as a structural break in Japanese trade policy. TOKYO, September…
Mexico opens an anti-dumping investigation into Japanese sheet steel plate, a rare trade-remedy strike at a CPTPP partner, capping a week of aggressive steel defense actions. MEXICO CITY, September 7, 2026 Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has opened a formal anti-dumping investigation into imports of sheet steel plate originating in Japan, an unusual move against one…
Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has opened an anti-dumping investigation into Japanese hot-rolled carbon steel plate after petitioner Grupo Acerero documented a 35-fold surge in imports, adding Tokyo to a growing list of targets in Mexico’s rapidly hardening steel trade defence campaign. MEXICO CITY, September 4, 2026 Mexico’s Ministry of Economy, the Secretaría de Economía, has…
Australia’s latest Tariff Concessions Gazette grants a fresh batch of duty-free orders while revoking others, a mixed round that touches suppliers in more than 30 jurisdictions and signals tighter scrutiny of the country’s concession regime. CANBERRA, August 28, 2026 Australia has published a new round of customs tariff amendments under its Tariff Concession Order system,…