Tag: Supply Chain

  • Steel Rack Duty

    CBSA publishes its reasons for provisional dumping and subsidy duties on Chinese steel racks as Ottawa’s wider steel defences strain under record permit volumes OTTAWA, September 19, 2026 The Canada Border Services Agency has released the detailed reasoning behind provisional anti-dumping and countervailing duties on steel racks from China, putting on the public record the…

  • Hanoi Squeeze

    Vietnam’s president heads to New York with as many as 29 commercial agreements in hand, an American goods deficit that has overtaken China’s, and three separate Section 301 proceedings hanging over the relationship. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2026 Vietnamese President To Lam travels to New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly carrying an…

  • Parcel Fee Era

    With six weeks to the 1 November deadline, the European Union has still not set the level of its new handling charge on low-value parcels, leaving cross-border sellers to plan a cost they cannot yet quantify BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union’s assault on the low-value parcel is entering its decisive phase, and the…

  • Delhi Quota Row

    India’s commerce ministry says the new trade agreement with the European Union shields more than 80 per cent of Indian steel exports from Brussels quotas and carbon rules, while industry warns the agreement’s own annex may cut guaranteed access in sixteen product categories NEW DELHI, 18 September 2026. India’s commerce ministry moved on Thursday to…

  • Shock Is Here

    Ursula von der Leyen tells the European Parliament that the second China shock has already arrived, converting a decade of academic argument into the operating doctrine of European trade policy STRASBOURG, 18 September 2026. The President of the European Commission used her annual State of the Union address on Wednesday to declare that the economic…

  • Hybrid Cap Push

    Brussels asks Beijing to hold Chinese plug-in hybrids to 15 per cent of the European market or face a new duty investigation, after shipments rose from 3,800 vehicles a month to 50,000 in under two years BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union has asked China to impose a voluntary ceiling on exports of hybrid…

  • EU Sets Oct Bar

    Brussels fixes 8 to 9 October in Beijing as the moment China must show “credible” movement on a trade gap running at more than one billion euros a day, and signals that failure will trigger the bloc’s harder instruments BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union has put a date and a test on its…

  • India Duty Net

    New Delhi names three Japanese, Malaysian and Thai producers in a circumvention probe on plastic pipe resin and extends a chemical duty for five more years, as India shifts from policing origins to policing routes NEW DELHI, September 17, 2026. India’s trade remedy authority has opened an anti circumvention investigation naming three specific exporters in…

  • EU Hybrid Push

    Brussels asks Beijing to cap Chinese hybrid car sales at around 15 per cent of the European market or face duties, reviving a managed trade instrument last used against Japan in the 1980s BRUSSELS, September 17, 2026. The European Union has asked China to voluntarily limit sales of Chinese built hybrid cars in the European…

  • EU Widens CBAM

    European Parliament votes to extend the carbon border levy from raw steel and aluminium into 457 finished and semi-finished product categories, pushing the bloc’s carbon tariff deep into fasteners, wire, springs and household goods STRASBOURG, September 17, 2026. The European Parliament has voted to extend the European Union’s carbon border levy to 457 downstream product…