Tag: Overcapacity
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Thai negotiators worked through the night with USTR ahead of a proposed leader-level call this week, racing to lock in a reciprocal trade agreement before a separate Section 301 overcapacity investigation lands on one of America’s largest Asian suppliers. BANGKOK and WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2026 Thailand’s trade negotiators spoke with the Office of the United…
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A planned 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff would push US duties on Chinese goods to the very ceiling of the trade truce, just as new export data shows Beijing’s shipping machine running hotter than ever ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Two weeks before President Donald Trump is scheduled to welcome…
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Mexico locks in definitive anti-dumping duties of 1.93 dollars per kilogram on Chinese hollow aluminium profiles and 1.72 dollars on US product, capping an eighteen month investigation that lands squarely in the middle of the country’s broader confrontation with Chinese metals overcapacity. MEXICO CITY, September 7, 2026. Mexico has closed one of the most closely…
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Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has opened an anti-dumping investigation into Japanese hot-rolled carbon steel plate after petitioner Grupo Acerero documented a 35-fold surge in imports, adding Tokyo to a growing list of targets in Mexico’s rapidly hardening steel trade defence campaign. MEXICO CITY, September 4, 2026 Mexico’s Ministry of Economy, the Secretaría de Economía, has…
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Washington is preparing a 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff on Chinese goods, engineered to hit the exact ceiling of the bilateral truce, weeks before Xi Jinping arrives for a September 24 summit that will decide whether the truce survives By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The…
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Washington prepares a 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff on Chinese goods, a move calibrated to reach, but not breach, the 20 percent cap Beijing says it was promised ahead of the September 24 Xi-Trump summit WASHINGTON, August 25, 2026. The Trump administration is preparing to impose an additional 7.5 percent tariff on Chinese goods under its…
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The forced labor tariffs were the opening act, not the finale. With an overcapacity probe underway, sectoral security investigations maturing and new legal tools being tested, Washington’s rebuilt tariff machine has a full pipeline for the months ahead. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 The tariff week that…