Tag: Safeguards

  • GOES Shielded

    Brussels imposes emergency quotas and minimum import prices of up to 3,500 euros a tonne on electrical steel, transformer cores and laminations, protecting an entire value chain for the first time BRUSSELS, 20 September 2026 – The European Union has moved to rescue one of the last strategically critical steel products it still makes at…

  • Quota Squeeze

    Europe’s new steel import regime has lifted domestic prices more than 16 per cent this year and pushed foreign competition down the value chain, where no tariff reaches it BRUSSELS, 19 September 2026 – The European Union set out in 2026 to defend its steelmakers, and by the measure it set itself the policy has…

  • Canned Veg TRQ

    Canada Gazette publication puts the Trade Tribunal’s safeguard report on the public record, laying out a three-year quota and surtaxes of up to 50 per cent on canned vegetable imports OTTAWA, September 20, 2026 The formal notice of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s safeguard report on vegetable imports appeared in the Canada Gazette on September…

  • EU Steel Clock

    Brussels trade officials reviewed implementation of the bloc’s new steel regime on 15 September as importers face a two week countdown to compulsory melt and pour declarations, an 18.3 million tonne duty free ceiling and a 50 percent out of quota tariff. Brussels, 16 September 2026 European Union member state trade officials gathered at the…

  • EEU Steel Probe

    The Eurasian Economic Commission opens a safeguard investigation into imports of polymer-coated flat-rolled steel after complaints from Russian giants MMK and Severstal, setting the stage for new duties across five countries MOSCOW, September 8, 2026 The Eurasian Economic Commission has launched a safeguard investigation into imports of flat-rolled steel with polymer coating entering the customs…

  • EAEU Coil Probe

    The Eurasian Economic Union opens a safeguard investigation into imports of polymer-coated flat-rolled steel, threatening new tariffs on suppliers from China to Turkiye as the bloc’s steelmakers press for protection on a third front this year MOSCOW, September 8, 2026 The Eurasian Economic Commission has initiated a safeguard investigation into imports of flat-rolled steel with…

  • EU Steel Clamp

    Brussels has finalized the documentary rules that will force every steel importer to prove where its metal was first melted and poured, and the opening week of September finds importers, mills and freight forwarders around the world racing to rebuild their paperwork before the October 1 deadline. BRUSSELS, September 5, 2026 The European Commission’s adoption…

  • 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…