Tag: MOFCOM
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A one-year suspension of China’s expanded export controls expires on 10 November, and Beijing’s fresh licensing pledge to Brussels has sharpened rather than settled the question of what happens next SHANGHAI, 12 October 2026 – The clock on the most consequential export control decision facing global manufacturing now reads four weeks. China’s suspension of the…
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China commits to a green channel for rare earth and permanent magnet export licences bound for Europe. The concession is real, the published detail is thin, and European manufacturers have learned to price licensing risk. BEIJING and BRUSSELS, October 11, 2026 China has committed to continue facilitating export licence approvals for rare earth elements and…
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A 6,565 tonne chemical nobody outside the dye industry has heard of became Beijing’s opening move five days before the European trade commissioner landed BEIJING, October 8, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce opened an anti-dumping investigation on Saturday, October 3, into imports of para-nitrotoluene originating in the European Union, a decision whose commercial stakes are…
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China cuts duties on 1,619 lines of American farm goods and leaves the single largest one off the schedule, sending November futures below $13 and reopening the oldest wound of the trade conflict CHICAGO, Sept. 28, 2026 – China’s Ministry of Commerce announced Monday that it will reduce tariffs on a broad slate of American…
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Washington and Beijing publish the product schedules behind last week’s summit deal: 1,619 American export lines and 77 Chinese categories, with more than nine in ten moving to most favored nation treatment. Semiconductors, electric vehicles and batteries are nowhere on it. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2026 – The United States and China released reciprocal product lists…
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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…
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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,…
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Brussels and Beijing enter the final stretch before an October deadline with the electric vehicle minimum price mechanism only half built, Chinese duties still collecting on European pork, dairy and brandy, and a new fight over investigative jurisdiction poisoning the well. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The most consequential number published in the China-EU trade file…
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Beijing rejects Washington’s transshipment accusations as Mexico signals fresh duties on Chinese steel and textiles, deepening a trade rupture that is redrawing sourcing maps across North America. MEXICO CITY/BEIJING, August 24, 2026. China’s Ministry of Commerce has publicly rejected a White House report accusing Chinese exporters of routing goods through Mexico and other countries to…
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Beijing orders Chinese firms not to cooperate with Brussels over the JD.com bid for Germany’s Ceconomy, the second blocking order in four months and a direct challenge to the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation BRUSSELS, 20 August 2026 China has forbidden its companies and citizens from assisting a European Union investigation into JD.com’s proposed acquisition of…