Tag: Safeguards
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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…
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The European Union’s melt and pour traceability requirement took effect on October 1, converting a paperwork obligation into the gatekeeper for an 18.3 million tonne quota backed by a 50 percent out-of-quota duty BRUSSELS, October 2, 2026 As of 00:00 on October 1, 2026, a steel consignment arriving at an European Union port without documentary…
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China’s safeguard surtax slams shut the world’s largest beef import market for Brazil, pushing the effective duty to 67 percent and forcing a global rerouting of protein trade in the final quarter of 2026 SAO PAULO / BEIJING, October 2, 2026 Brazil’s beef industry has run into the hardest trade barrier it has faced in…
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Europe’s new steel wall hardens on 1 October as melt and pour proof becomes binding and a second quota tranche opens against near total exhaustion of the first BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 Europe’s steel importers have roughly 48 hours left before the most consequential customs paperwork requirement in a generation takes legal effect, and the…
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From Cairo to Brasilia to New Delhi, defensive measures multiplying outside the big blocs are rewriting sourcing maps for mid-sized importers LONDON, October 1, 2026 / The trade measures that attract headlines are the ones imposed by the largest economies. The measures that are quietly reshaping sourcing decisions for most of the world’s importers in…
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With a self-imposed October deadline days away and a goods deficit running above one billion euro a day, Brussels is weighing horizontal safeguards against Chinese industrial imports while preparing a trade diversification instrument for December. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Union enters the final days of September with the most consequential deadline in its…
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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…
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Provisional safeguard measures on grain-oriented electrical steel reach beyond coils into laminations, cores and even cores already built into transformers, pulling a whole electrification supply chain inside the EU tariff perimeter until February 2027. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Commission’s provisional safeguard on grain-oriented electrical steel has entered its second full week in force,…
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The Commission’s 44th annual trade defence report, now with the Council and Parliament, records 232 measures in force, 32 fresh investigations and a litigation docket that nearly doubled in a year BRUSSELS, 21 September 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk The European Union entered 2026 with 232 trade defence measures in force, up from…
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The OECD says global steel excess capacity will reach 721 million tonnes by 2027, with additions outrunning closures three to one, as Europe’s melt and pour rule takes effect on October 1 and turns origin documentation into a condition of market access PARIS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 Global steel excess capacity is projected to rise from…