Tag: Safeguards

  • UK Ends Duties

    Britain has let its decade-old anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled flat steel from China and Russia expire, redrawing the import calculus for one of manufacturing’s most essential materials just weeks after a sweeping new steel tariff regime took effect. LONDON, August 7, 2026 The United Kingdom has terminated its definitive anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled flat steel…

  • UK PET Probe

    Britain’s Trade Remedies Authority has launched its first ever safeguard investigation, examining whether surging imports of polyethylene terephthalate are inflicting serious injury on domestic plastics production. LONDON, August 8, 2026. The United Kingdom has crossed a threshold in its post-Brexit trade policy. On 5 August 2026, the Trade Remedies Authority announced the initiation of a…

  • UK Steel Lapse

    LONDON, August 7, 2026 The United Kingdom has terminated its definitive anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled flat steel from China and Russia, allowing one of the longest-running trade remedies on its books to lapse at the end of its statutory five-year term. HM Revenue and Customs confirmed the change in a tariff notice published on August…

  • SACU Steel Line

    Southern Africa’s customs union opens a sweeping safeguard investigation into cold-rolled flat steel, positioning the five-nation bloc as the newest trade defence flashpoint in a world awash with surplus metal and diverted cargoes. Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk PRETORIA, Aug. 3, 2026. The Southern African Customs Union has opened one of the most…

  • Cabinet Surtax

    Ottawa imposes a 25 per cent provisional safeguard on imported wood cabinets and vanities, and importers have until August 5 before they even learn how to declare it OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Canadian importers of kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities returned from the Civic Holiday long weekend to a new 25 per cent surtax that…

  • Steel Wall Up

    Three weeks into the EU’s 50 percent out-of-quota steel duty, exporters from Tokyo to Seoul are counting the cost, importers are racing quota clocks, and Beijing is warning of a response International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: Three weeks after the European Union switched on the most…

  • Surplus Shock

    China’s trade surplus with the European Union hits an all-time high just as Brussels switches on its toughest trade defences in a generation, with duties on Chinese plug-in hybrids waiting in the wings. BRUSSELS, July 20, 2026. The uncomfortable arithmetic of Europe’s trade relationship with China caught up with Brussels this month. China’s trade surplus…

  • EU Duty Threat

    Brussels warns that dialogue with Beijing “will not suffice” and signals unilateral tariff action, as China’s trade surplus with the European Union surges to a record high ahead of an October deadline for talks. By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 15, 2026. The European Commission has put Beijing on notice that…

  • EU Steel Snarl

    Customs gridlock, cash calls and paralyzed trading mark the first week of Europe’s toughest steel import regime in a generation, as exporters worldwide confront a 50 percent duty wall BRUSSELS, July 7, 2026 One week into the European Union’s sweeping new steel import regime, the machinery built to shield the bloc’s ailing steelmakers is grinding…