Tag: South Korea
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India’s revenue intelligence directorate says Samsung and LG wrongly claimed a 5 percent concessional duty on OLED open cells that should have carried 15 percent, reopening the oldest question in tariff administration: what counts as the same technology NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 India is investigating LG Electronics and Samsung for allegedly paying lower tariffs…
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India opens an anti-circumvention probe into CPVC resin routed through Japan, Malaysia and Thailand, testing whether duties on China and Korea are being quietly engineered away NEW DELHI, 24 September 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies has opened an anti-circumvention investigation into imports of chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin, whether or not further processed into…
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Brussels has imposed provisional safeguards on grain-oriented electrical steel, laminations and transformer cores, with quotas for China, Japan and South Korea and a price-threshold duty mechanism that takes effect on 25 September. Transformer makers say the measure will raise the cost of Europe’s grid build-out. BRUSSELS, 22 September 2026 The European Commission has imposed provisional…
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India’s trade remedies authority closed fifteen anti-dumping cases and opened thirteen more in a single month, with China and South Korea the dominant targets across steel, glass fibre, solar and chemicals NEW DELHI, 20 September 2026 – India has spent September conducting what amounts to the most concentrated burst of trade remedy activity of any…
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Japan and South Korea head into a decisive September with dueling anti-dumping duties on each other’s steel, as both scramble to wall off markets from a flood of cheap Chinese metal. TOKYO, SEPT. 14, 2026 Northeast Asia’s quiet steel war has reached its most consequential stretch of the year. As of this week, Japanese customs…
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Washington readies Phase Two semiconductor duties as Seoul and Taipei bargain for relief and markets brace for higher electronics prices WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. The Trump administration’s plan for a second, far broader round of semiconductor tariffs hardened into the dominant story in global trade over the past several days, as negotiators from South Korea…
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Russia’s weekly floating levy on wheat and corn jumped again on 26 August, tightening the fiscal screw on exporters at the precise moment that war damage has closed most of the country’s Black Sea shipping capacity. MOSCOW, August 27, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Russia has raised its export duties on wheat, meslin and corn…
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From Taipei to Kuala Lumpur, Asian governments unleash a synchronized surge of anti-dumping actions as redirected Chinese steel floods regional markets shut out of the West SINGAPORE, Aug. 26: A wave of trade remedy actions is sweeping across Asia and beyond, as governments from Taiwan to Malaysia to Saudi Arabia race to defend domestic steel…
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China and Switzerland conclude an upgraded free trade agreement scrapping tariffs on 99.8 percent of Swiss exports, a pact analysts read as Beijing’s pointed signal to a wary European Union BERN, Aug. 26: China and Switzerland have concluded negotiations to upgrade their twelve-year-old free trade agreement, a deal that will eventually eliminate tariffs on 99.8…
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Riyadh’s new anti-dumping probe into Indian and Chinese duplex paperboard, launched days after Seoul opened its own case against Chinese ethyl acetate, signals how quickly the Gulf and emerging Asia are converting to trade defense as a first-line industrial policy tool. RIYADH, August 25, 2026 Saudi Arabia has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imports of…