Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…
The package that died in Washington would have halved steel and aluminum duties, cut auto tariffs to 15 per cent and opened formal CUSMA talks. What Canadian producers lost, and what they keep HAMILTON, Ontario, August 22, 2026 The tariffs that made headlines on Saturday morning were not the ones that matter most to Canadian…
Negotiators have sketched a tentative arrangement cutting Section 232 steel and aluminium duties to 25 per cent and auto tariffs to 15 per cent, but derivative products, exclusions and aluminium traceability remain unresolved WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 The most commercially significant element of the emerging Canada-United States trade arrangement is not the 50 per cent…
India’s anti-dumping investigation into transformer-grade electrical steel from China, Japan, South Korea and Russia crosses its 60-day threshold this week, the point at which provisional duties become legally possible in a market that imports roughly nine of every ten tonnes it consumes. By the Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk NEW DELHI, August 17, 2026: India’s…
Japan’s first anti-dumping duties on a mainstream steel product completed their first full week of collection as Korean producers filed formal rebuttals and the global steel trade absorbed the signal from one of the world’s most reluctant users of trade remedies. TOKYO, August 16, 2026. One week after Japanese customs officers began collecting the country’s…
India’s trade remedies authority is running one of its busiest anti-dumping dockets in memory this August, with hearings, recommendations and new probes overwhelmingly targeting Chinese goods across chemicals, steel, electronics and pharmaceuticals. NEW DELHI, August 14, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies convened an oral hearing on Friday afternoon in its anti-dumping investigation into…
Tokyo enacts provisional duties of 29.2 to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare deployment of trade remedies by the world’s third largest steel producer and the latest sign that Asia’s long tolerance of cheap steel imports is running out. TOKYO, August 13, 2026. Japanese customs officers began collecting…
Ottawa has revived a proposal to cap Canadian steel and aluminum shipments to the United States in exchange for relief from Section 232 duties, a managed-trade bargain that would trade the principle of open access for the predictability producers say they can no longer find. OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2026 Canadian negotiators have put export quotas…
POSCO formally contests Japan’s first major anti-dumping duties on Korean steel, opening a high-stakes trade confrontation between two US allies as a far larger probe into hot-rolled and cold-rolled products looms in the background. SEOUL, Aug. 11, 2026 — South Korea’s flagship steelmaker POSCO has formally challenged the provisional anti-dumping duties Japan imposed last week…
The European Commission has disclosed definitive anti-dumping duties of 5.6% to 28% on cold-rolled flat steel from India, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam, tightening the screws on Asian and Turkish suppliers while denying EU mills the retroactive collection they had sought. BRUSSELS, August 11, 2026 The European Commission has moved to impose definitive anti-dumping duties…