Tag: Subsidies

  • Capacity Pact

    Fourteen economies sign a U.S.-led ministerial statement on structural overcapacity, naming autos, EVs, batteries, chemicals, semiconductors and solar as sectors of concern. China, Brazil, Russia and South Africa stayed out WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has assembled the broadest coalition yet behind its argument that subsidized industrial overcapacity is…

  • China Defies EU

    Beijing’s blocking order against Brussels’ foreign subsidies probe of JD.com’s bid for Germany’s Ceconomy escalates a widening contest over who writes the rules of global commerce, and it leaves multinational compliance teams standing in the crossfire. BEIJING, Aug. 19. China ordered companies and individuals on Wednesday to refuse cooperation with a European Union subsidy investigation…

  • Tomago Rescue

    Canberra and New South Wales have committed A$2.5 billion over a decade to keep Australia’s largest aluminium smelter alive, a bailout that lays bare the accelerating global race to subsidise strategic metals. SYDNEY, August 13, 2026. Australia’s federal government and the New South Wales state government on Thursday jointly announced a rescue package worth A$2.5…

  • Lumber Duty Hit

    A Quebec remanufacturer is pulled back inside the softwood countervailing duty order after a seven year court fight, and the ruling carries a warning for every Canadian lumber trading company WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 A Quebec lumber remanufacturer that spent seven years outside the United States countervailing duty order on Canadian softwood lumber has been…