Tag: Rare Earths
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EU leaders open a two-day Brussels summit with China at the top of the agenda, a 360 billion euro goods deficit behind them and draft conclusions that instruct the Commission to use its trade defence arsenal in full and to build new instruments on top of it BRUSSELS, October 15, 2026: The twenty-seven heads of…
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Brussels leaves Beijing with a faster queue, not an open door. With the suspension of China’s second wave of export controls due to lapse on November 10, buyers in Europe, Japan, South Korea and India are budgeting for paperwork rather than plenty. BRUSSELS, October 14, 2026: European Union Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič returned from two…
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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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Sefcovic lands in Beijing with an October ultimatum, a one billion euro a day deficit and almost no leverage he has not already spent BRUSSELS and BEIJING, October 8, 2026 European Union Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic opened two days of talks with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing on Thursday, arriving with a deadline…
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Brussels presses Beijing to accept product by product import quotas as an October deadline closes, reviving an instrument the world trading system outlawed three decades ago BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 The European Union is pressing China to accept quotas on specific products as the price of avoiding a wave of unilateral trade defence measures, a…
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With Sefcovic bound for Beijing and a December package of trade instruments in preparation, Brussels is weighing how far it is willing to go BRUSSELS, September 30, 2026 / European officials have begun describing October as make-or-break for the bloc’s commercial relationship with China, a characterisation that until recently would have been dismissed as rhetorical.…
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Beijing warns it will respond resolutely to any Section 301 style European trade instrument, days before Maros Sefcovic flies to Beijing with an October deadline and a 360 billion euro deficit on the table BRUSSELS / BEIJING, September 30, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce warned on September 29 that it will “respond resolutely” if the…
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Commission officials arrive in Beijing to prepare an October Trade and Investment Council as Brussels signals harsher measures absent concrete results on market access and rare earths BRUSSELS, September 23, 2026 The European Commission’s director-general for trade was in Beijing on September 21 preparing the ground for Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic’s visit on October 8…
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Two days of talks in New York failed to settle how long the US China tariff truce will run past Nov. 10, leaving importers to price a summit outcome they cannot yet see NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2026. American and Chinese negotiators spent Sunday at JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters working through the terms of an…