Tag: Rules of Origin

  • Delhi Deal Dash

    Bloomberg Economics puts the dividend from India’s trade agreement programme at $140 billion to $170 billion by 2035. The arithmetic turns less on signing ceremonies than on staging schedules, origin rules and whether Indian exporters ever use the preferences their government has won. NEW DELHI, October 14, 2026: India’s free trade agreement programme, the most…

  • UK India Push

    Britain sends three Cabinet ministers, seven mayors and roughly 200 organisations to India as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement passes its hundredth day, turning a signed schedule of tariff cuts into a test of whether exporters can actually claim them MUMBAI, October 14, 2026: A United Kingdom trade delegation signed a growth partnership with…

  • Armenia Opens

    Duty-free access to the EU for roughly 3,500 tariff lines took effect on 10 October, a two-year lifeline built in response to Russian trade restrictions on a small landlocked economy BRUSSELS, 12 October 2026 – European Union import duties on the overwhelming majority of Armenian goods fell to zero on 10 October, the day Regulation…

  • Steel Lockdown

    The melt and pour rule became mandatory on October 1, and Europe’s 50 percent out-of-quota duty now has the origin tracing it needed to work BRUSSELS, October 8, 2026 The European Union’s steel import regime passed its quietest and most consequential deadline a week ago, and most of the world’s exporters are only now discovering…

  • Africa Opens Up

    Nigeria pressed a five-point trade plan on African governments at a business forum on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast while Ethiopia prepared to ship its first duty-free consignments under the continental free trade area, as AfCFTA grinds from protocol toward paperwork. NEW ALAMEIN, Egypt, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Nigeria used the Africa-Alamein Business Forum…

  • EU Melt Rule

    Brussels switches on melt-and-pour origin tracing as the 50 percent out-of-quota duty bites, redrawing the map of who may sell steel into Europe BRUSSELS, October 1, 2026 / The European Union’s steel import regime crossed its most consequential threshold on Wednesday night, as the melt-and-pour origin requirement written into Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 took effect and…

  • EU Steel Wall

    From 1 October the European Union requires every steel importer to prove where the metal was melted and poured, completing a protection regime that has already cut duty free quotas by 47 percent and doubled the out of quota tariff to 50 percent. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 On Thursday, the European Union’s steel import regime…

  • EU Manila Pact

    The European Union and the Philippines have closed negotiations on a free trade agreement covering 94 percent of tariff lines and 97 percent of bilateral trade, opening Philippine public procurement to foreign bidders for the first time and beating the 2027 expiry of duty free preferences. BRUSSELS AND MANILA, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 After a decade…

  • Hanoi FTA Gap

    Vietnam has 17 trade agreements and uses barely any of them. Officials in Ho Chi Minh City put preferential certificate uptake under 10 percent for CPTPP and warn that tariff margins alone no longer win markets. HO CHI MINH CITY, September 28, 2026 Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has set out an uncomfortable diagnosis…

  • EU FTA Bonus

    Brussels reports that goods exports to preferential partners rose by 250 billion euros in 2025 and grew at more than twice the rate of overall trade, offsetting the collapse of the Russian market. BRUSSELS, September 28, 2026 The European Commission published its sixth annual report on the implementation and enforcement of European Union trade and…