Tag: Manufacturing
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With a self-imposed October deadline days away and a goods deficit running above one billion euro a day, Brussels is weighing horizontal safeguards against Chinese industrial imports while preparing a trade diversification instrument for December. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Union enters the final days of September with the most consequential deadline in its…
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Provisional safeguard measures on grain-oriented electrical steel reach beyond coils into laminations, cores and even cores already built into transformers, pulling a whole electrification supply chain inside the EU tariff perimeter until February 2027. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Commission’s provisional safeguard on grain-oriented electrical steel has entered its second full week in force,…
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Section 232 tariffs on patented medicines reach every remaining importer today, with rates running from zero to 100 percent depending on pricing deals, onshoring commitments and country of origin WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2026. The second and final phase of the United States’ Section 232 pharmaceutical tariff regime takes effect today, extending duties on patented medicines…
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Afghanistan’s Tariff Committee doubles duties on leather and plastic footwear, lifts rates on paint, plaster, bottles and nappies, and signals an import-substitution turn in one of Asia’s most import-dependent economies. KABUL, September 28, 2026 Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance has raised import tariffs on seven categories of goods and lowered the rate on one, in a…
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The OECD says global steel excess capacity will reach 721 million tonnes by 2027, with additions outrunning closures three to one, as Europe’s melt and pour rule takes effect on October 1 and turns origin documentation into a condition of market access PARIS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 Global steel excess capacity is projected to rise from…
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India’s revenue intelligence directorate says Samsung and LG wrongly claimed a 5 percent concessional duty on OLED open cells that should have carried 15 percent, reopening the oldest question in tariff administration: what counts as the same technology NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 India is investigating LG Electronics and Samsung for allegedly paying lower tariffs…
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Australia publishes eight tariff concession records in a single day, seven of them liberalising, one restrictive, with retroactive dates stretching back to June. The tranche is routine administration, and that is exactly why importers should read it. CANBERRA, 24 September 2026. Australia on 23 September published a tranche of customs tariff amendments under its Tariff…
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Directorate General of Trade Remedies recommends a five-year extension of anti-dumping duties on Chinese flat-rolled aluminium and on aluminium foil from China, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia NEW DELHI, September 23, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies has recommended extending anti-dumping duties on flat-rolled aluminium products from China and on aluminium foil from China, Thailand,…
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The Canadian Federation of Independent Business recorded its steepest one month drop of the year in September as tariff uncertainty and fuel costs bit into expectations. Relief money is flowing, but it is reaching only part of the affected base, and the firms most exposed to trade are the least confident of all. TORONTO, September…
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New Oxford Economics analysis puts the EU’s economic stake in British car production at 24 billion euros and 250,000 jobs. British industry is using the figures to argue against exclusion from the bloc’s “Made in Europe” procurement and incentive rules. LONDON / BRUSSELS, 22 September 2026 The British motor industry published analysis on Tuesday quantifying,…