Tag: Japan
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India’s customs board has lifted the notified base value used to tax gold imports to a record 1,500 dollars per 10 grams, tightening the squeeze on the world’s second largest bullion market just as global prices flirt with all time highs. NEW DELHI, August 27, 2026. India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)…
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India’s anti-dumping investigation into transformer-grade electrical steel from China, Japan, South Korea and Russia crosses its 60-day threshold this week, the point at which provisional duties become legally possible in a market that imports roughly nine of every ten tonnes it consumes. By the Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk NEW DELHI, August 17, 2026: India’s…
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Japan’s first anti-dumping duties on a mainstream steel product completed their first full week of collection as Korean producers filed formal rebuttals and the global steel trade absorbed the signal from one of the world’s most reluctant users of trade remedies. TOKYO, August 16, 2026. One week after Japanese customs officers began collecting the country’s…
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Tokyo enacts provisional duties of 29.2 to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare deployment of trade remedies by the world’s third largest steel producer and the latest sign that Asia’s long tolerance of cheap steel imports is running out. TOKYO, August 13, 2026. Japanese customs officers began collecting…
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POSCO formally contests Japan’s first major anti-dumping duties on Korean steel, opening a high-stakes trade confrontation between two US allies as a far larger probe into hot-rolled and cold-rolled products looms in the background. SEOUL, Aug. 11, 2026 — South Korea’s flagship steelmaker POSCO has formally challenged the provisional anti-dumping duties Japan imposed last week…
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The European Commission has disclosed definitive anti-dumping duties of 5.6% to 28% on cold-rolled flat steel from India, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam, tightening the screws on Asian and Turkish suppliers while denying EU mills the retroactive collection they had sought. BRUSSELS, August 11, 2026 The European Commission has moved to impose definitive anti-dumping duties…
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Japan has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of 29.2 percent to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare and forceful use of trade remedies by a country long known for restraint. TOKYO, August 10, 2026 Japan’s steel trade defenses, dormant for most of the postwar era, are now firmly in…
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Japan has begun collecting provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, one of Tokyo’s most assertive uses of its trade remedy toolkit in years and a fresh signal that no major steel market intends to absorb Asia’s excess capacity without a fight. TOKYO, August 9,…
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Tokyo’s provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China take effect August 8, a forceful turn toward trade defense by a country that has long avoided such measures. TOKYO, August 7, 2026 Japan will begin collecting provisional anti-dumping duties of 29.2 percent to 55.3 percent on…
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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…