Tag: Supply Chain
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Brussels and Manila reach substantial agreement on a free trade pact covering more than 94 percent of tariff lines, opening a second Southeast Asian front in the European Union’s Indo-Pacific trade offensive BRUSSELS, September 23, 2026 The European Union and the Philippines announced on September 22 that they had reached what both sides described as…
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The Canadian Federation of Independent Business recorded its steepest one month drop of the year in September as tariff uncertainty and fuel costs bit into expectations. Relief money is flowing, but it is reaching only part of the affected base, and the firms most exposed to trade are the least confident of all. TORONTO, September…
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Canada quietly ends eleven years of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese photovoltaic modules after domestic producers decline to defend the order, reshaping cost assumptions for solar developers on both sides of the border OTTAWA, September 23, 2026 – Canada has ended more than a decade of trade protection for its domestic solar manufacturing sector,…
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New Oxford Economics analysis puts the EU’s economic stake in British car production at 24 billion euros and 250,000 jobs. British industry is using the figures to argue against exclusion from the bloc’s “Made in Europe” procurement and incentive rules. LONDON / BRUSSELS, 22 September 2026 The British motor industry published analysis on Tuesday quantifying,…
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From 1 October every steel import into the European Union must be traced back to the furnace where it was first cast. Importers who cannot evidence the country of melt and pour face rejection at the border, and the data will govern quota allocation from 2027. BRUSSELS / LONDON, 22 September 2026 In nine days…
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Brussels and Manila land a political agreement covering more than 94 per cent of tariff lines and 97 per cent of bilateral trade, leaving only quota numbers unresolved. For importers, the clock is now running against the Philippines’ 2027 GSP+ cliff edge. BRUSSELS / MANILA, 22 September 2026 The European Union and the Philippines announced…
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USTR holds back its Section 301 excess capacity findings on China days before a Washington summit, leaving importers with a 7.5 percent question mark and a truce that expires on November 10 By the US Trade Desk WASHINGTON, September 20, 2026. The Office of the United States Trade Representative has postponed the release of its…
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Washington holds back the Section 301 excess capacity report that would recommend a 7.5 percent duty on Chinese goods, preserving leverage days before a Trump and Xi summit and leaving importers to budget for a tariff that exists only on paper WASHINGTON, SEPT. 19, 2026 The Trump administration is expected to withhold the release of…
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Italy’s steel distribution association warns that service centres cannot pass on mill price increases and that European manufacturing faces progressive, irreversible weakening MILAN, 20 September 2026 – The clearest statement yet of what Europe’s steel trade policy is doing to the companies in the middle of the supply chain came this week not from Brussels…
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Europe’s carbon border charge has yet to show up fully in steel prices because pre-emptive stockpiles are still being worked off, and distributors say the reckoning is coming WARSAW, 20 September 2026 – The European carbon border levy has been law for long enough to have changed prices, and it has not changed them as…