Tag: Japan
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Beijing’s first-ever foreign trade national security investigation targets imported printers and copiers running foreign software, and Japanese and European equipment makers are squarely in the blast radius. BEIJING, August 6, 2026 – China has switched on a trade weapon it has never used before, and the first target is sitting in nearly every office in…
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New Delhi opens a four-day run of anti-dumping hearings aimed largely at Chinese goods this week, capping a summer in which India’s trade-remedy machinery has moved at its fastest pace in years. NEW DELHI, August 4, 2026 – India’s trade-remedy authority stepped into one of the busiest weeks on its calendar on Monday, convening an…
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Allies from Tokyo to Canberra are protesting Washington’s new forced labor tariffs on 60 economies, calling the human rights rationale a pretext for rebuilding the duties American courts struck down, as the first full week under the new regime begins. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2026 The United States began its first full business week under a…
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China shipped fewer rare earths in the first half of 2026 but earned dramatically more for them, and customs figures reported Monday reveal how Beijing’s licensing wall, backed by a new enforcement campaign, is converting geology into leverage over Europe, Japan and the wider world. BEIJING, July 20, 2026. China is selling fewer rare earths…
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India’s trade remedies authority has extended anti-dumping duties on Chinese seamless steel tubes and stretched the comment clock in its hot rolled steel probe against China, Japan and Russia, the latest reinforcements in a widening wall of trade defenses around the world’s second largest steel market. NEW DELHI, July 18. India’s steel trade defense wall…
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Japan begins collecting provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 42.1 percent on stainless steel from China and Taiwan, one of Tokyo’s most assertive trade remedy actions in years and a fresh fault line in Asia’s crowded steel trade International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting TOKYO, July 9, 2026 – Japan began collecting provisional anti-dumping duties…
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A free-trade partner that pays more than countries with no free-trade deal at all There is a peculiar arithmetic at the heart of North American trade in the summer of 2026, and it has Mexican negotiators quietly furious. Mexico is the United States’ closest manufacturing partner, the largest single source of imported cars on American…
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A 48-hour wave of protest from Tokyo, Seoul, Brasília and Beijing greets the European Union’s toughest-ever steel import regime, which halves duty-free access and doubles the out-of-quota tariff to 50 percent BRUSSELS – July 5, 2026 The European Union’s new steel import regime is barely four days old, and it has already triggered one of…
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On June 3, 2026, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed something it had not seen in nearly sixty years: a living animal on American soil infested with the larvae of the New World screwworm. The host was a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, in the brushland of South Texas about 25 miles from the Mexican…
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Sake and Japanese spirits U.S. import tariff. HTS 2206, FET, TTB, USJTA preference, Section 122.