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…
Germany’s carmakers, long the loudest voice against confronting Beijing, now say the EU may deploy its trade defence toolbox where WTO rules are broken, a conditional endorsement that removes the biggest domestic obstacle to European action BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 The president of Germany’s automotive industry association warned on Thursday of growing trade imbalances with…
Brussels tells London to lift duties on Chinese cars or accept exclusion from the bloc’s emerging “Made in Europe” procurement regime, reviving the customs union question and reopening a transhipment fight that touches every supply chain running through British ports BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 The European Union has told the United Kingdom that it must…
China extends destination-specific export licensing to two more piperidinecarboxylate chemicals bound for the United States, Mexico and Canada, lifting the controlled list for those three markets to 18 substances and sharpening a compliance asymmetry that now runs straight through the global chemical trade BEIJING, 24 September 2026 China has added two more chemicals to the…
Australia publishes eight tariff concession records in a single day, seven of them liberalising, one restrictive, with retroactive dates stretching back to June. The tranche is routine administration, and that is exactly why importers should read it. CANBERRA, 24 September 2026. Australia on 23 September published a tranche of customs tariff amendments under its Tariff…
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…
India opens an anti-dumping case into Chinese glycine, reviving a trade remedy fight over a small-volume amino acid that sits inside food, pharma and the world’s biggest herbicide supply chain NEW DELHI, 24 September 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of glycine originating in or exported from…
Fifth round of negotiations on a European Union and Malaysia free trade agreement opens with a widened 21-chapter agenda as Brussels accelerates its Southeast Asian tariff strategy KUALA LUMPUR, September 23, 2026 The European Union and Malaysia opened the fifth round of negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement this week, with talks running alongside…
Commission officials arrive in Beijing to prepare an October Trade and Investment Council as Brussels signals harsher measures absent concrete results on market access and rare earths BRUSSELS, September 23, 2026 The European Commission’s director-general for trade was in Beijing on September 21 preparing the ground for Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic’s visit on October 8…
Directorate General of Trade Remedies recommends a five-year extension of anti-dumping duties on Chinese flat-rolled aluminium and on aluminium foil from China, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia NEW DELHI, September 23, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies has recommended extending anti-dumping duties on flat-rolled aluminium products from China and on aluminium foil from China, Thailand,…