Tag: Manufacturing


  • Scrap Duty Off

    Brussels shelved a planned 15 percent export levy on aluminium scrap days before it was due, choosing a waste shipment ban instead and drawing a furious letter from the European aluminium industry as trade officials met on the wider metals file. Brussels, 16 September 2026 The European Commission’s decision to abandon a planned 15 percent…

  • Summit Pledges

    Ottawa closed its first Canada Investment Summit with nearly $500 billion in commitments, a corporate tax deduction it says will give Canada the lowest effective rate on new business investment in the G7, and a plan to sell long term concessions on the country’s four largest airports. The pitch is a tariff strategy by another…

  • Cylinder Case

    Commerce formally opens antidumping investigations of linear hydraulic cylinders from five countries, with alleged dumping margins reaching 744.85 percent, after an unusual industry polling exercise and warnings about an unusually aggressive scope WASHINGTON, September 15, 2026. The United States Department of Commerce has formally launched one of the broadest trade remedy actions of the year,…

  • Steel Duty Duel

    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…

  • EU Scrap U-Turn

    Brussels abandons its planned 15 percent export duty on aluminium scrap after pressure linked to the India trade deal, leaving Europe’s smelters furious and forcing the bloc to reach for environmental waste rules instead. BRUSSELS, Sept. 14, 2026 The European Commission has abandoned its long-promised export duty on aluminium scrap, shelving a measure that Europe’s…

  • Boat Duty Looms

    A new 50 per cent U.S. tariff on Canadian motorboats, mattresses, golf carts, aluminum bars and steel tubing takes effect Tuesday, with import bans on alcohol, whey and motorcycles two weeks behind it, as Ottawa signals no retreat Ottawa, September 14, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, a second wave of 50 per cent U.S. tariffs…

  • Steel on Trial

    India’s trade remedy authority hears arguments today on whether Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese stainless steel imports have injured domestic mills, the latest front in a widening campaign of anti-dumping actions. NEW DELHI, September 11, 2026 A Hearing at the Center of a Widening Trade Fight India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies convenes an oral hearing…

  • Relief Opens

    Applications for Ottawa’s enlarged Regional Tariff Response Initiative went live this week in the Prairies and southern Ontario, pushing the national envelope to 3.45 billion dollars as survey data puts a three-month clock on the firms it is meant to save. OTTAWA, September 11, 2026 The federal government opened the application window this week for…

  • EEU Steel Probe

    The Eurasian Economic Commission opens a safeguard investigation into imports of polymer-coated flat-rolled steel after complaints from Russian giants MMK and Severstal, setting the stage for new duties across five countries MOSCOW, September 8, 2026 The Eurasian Economic Commission has launched a safeguard investigation into imports of flat-rolled steel with polymer coating entering the customs…

  • Bombardier Hit

    Trump’s threat to bar the Quebec jetmaker from the American market wiped more than six per cent off its shares, drew objections from a Republican senator and an American union, and exposed the limits of using market access as a trade weapon against a company with suppliers in 47 states. MONTREAL, September 9, 2026 –…