Tag: MOFCOM
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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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Brazil has burned through four fifths of its 2026 beef allowance in China, and once the last tonnes clear customs a 55 percent surcharge will lift total duties to roughly 67 percent, a level the industry says will stop the world’s biggest beef trade lane cold. SAO PAULO, July 27, 2026: Brazil’s beef industry is…
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Beijing races to lock in a 30 billion dollar reciprocal tariff cut with Washington before Xi Jinping travels to the United States, even as it blacklists European firms and fortifies its own farm sector. BEIJING, July 26, 2026 China spent the past week practicing a brand of tariff diplomacy that few governments would attempt on…
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Two months after unveiling what it called broadly balanced and positive preliminary outcomes from the China-US economic and trade consultations, China’s Commerce Ministry is converting a framework of tariff ceilings, twin councils, and agricultural breakthroughs into facts on the ground, and the rest of the trading world is recalibrating. BEIJING, July 18 On Friday evening…
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Two months after unveiling what it called broadly balanced and positive preliminary outcomes from the China-US economic and trade consultations, China’s Commerce Ministry is converting a framework of tariff ceilings, twin councils, and agricultural breakthroughs into facts on the ground, and the rest of the trading world is recalibrating. On Friday evening Beijing time, China’s…
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Beijing pauses helium exports to shield chipmakers and hospitals from a global shortage, while MOFCOM promises to recalibrate the ban as supply and demand shift. BEIJING, July 16, 2026: China’s Ministry of Commerce moved on Thursday to steady a nervous global gas market, saying it will adjust its newly imposed export controls on helium in…