Tag: Supply Chain
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Beijing has warned that a European instrument modelled on Section 301 would be met with a “strong policy toolbox”, days before the EU trade chief lands in China with a daily trade deficit above one billion dollars on the table BRUSSELS / BEIJING, October 2, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce has delivered its sharpest warning…
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The European Union’s melt and pour traceability requirement took effect on October 1, converting a paperwork obligation into the gatekeeper for an 18.3 million tonne quota backed by a 50 percent out-of-quota duty BRUSSELS, October 2, 2026 As of 00:00 on October 1, 2026, a steel consignment arriving at an European Union port without documentary…
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China’s safeguard surtax slams shut the world’s largest beef import market for Brazil, pushing the effective duty to 67 percent and forcing a global rerouting of protein trade in the final quarter of 2026 SAO PAULO / BEIJING, October 2, 2026 Brazil’s beef industry has run into the hardest trade barrier it has faced in…
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At the 2026 AAPA Annual Convention in New Orleans, PTC’s Evan Trapp and Mikenna Richardson shared a practical documentation playbook to help ports and terminal operators keep cargo moving as trade rules change.
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Brussels presses Beijing to accept product by product import quotas as an October deadline closes, reviving an instrument the world trading system outlawed three decades ago BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 The European Union is pressing China to accept quotas on specific products as the price of avoiding a wave of unilateral trade defence measures, a…
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Europe’s new steel wall hardens on 1 October as melt and pour proof becomes binding and a second quota tranche opens against near total exhaustion of the first BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 Europe’s steel importers have roughly 48 hours left before the most consequential customs paperwork requirement in a generation takes legal effect, and the…
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From 1 October the European Union requires every steel importer to prove where the metal was melted and poured, completing a protection regime that has already cut duty free quotas by 47 percent and doubled the out of quota tariff to 50 percent. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 On Thursday, the European Union’s steel import regime…
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Provisional safeguard measures on grain-oriented electrical steel reach beyond coils into laminations, cores and even cores already built into transformers, pulling a whole electrification supply chain inside the EU tariff perimeter until February 2027. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Commission’s provisional safeguard on grain-oriented electrical steel has entered its second full week in force,…
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Brussels locks in five years of definitive anti-dumping duties of 40.5 to 67.1 percent on Chinese pea protein, reshaping a 175 million euro ingredient market and forcing plant-based food manufacturers across the bloc to rewrite their sourcing plans. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Commission has converted its provisional trade defence action against Chinese pea…
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Section 232 tariffs on patented medicines reach every remaining importer today, with rates running from zero to 100 percent depending on pricing deals, onshoring commitments and country of origin WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2026. The second and final phase of the United States’ Section 232 pharmaceutical tariff regime takes effect today, extending duties on patented medicines…