Tag: Supply Chain
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Indonesia’s anti-dumping committee opens an investigation into Chinese galvanised steel that supplied four fifths of a 2.56 million tonne import wave, joining Japan, Australia, Malaysia and Taiwan in a coated-steel enforcement cascade now running across Asia. JAKARTA, September 20, 2026 Indonesia has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imports of galvanised and zinc-coated steel sheet from…
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At a Warsaw industry meeting, European steel distributors call openly for the United States model of whole value chain protection and demand that Brussels commit to melt and pour origin rules WARSAW, 20 September 2026 – The European steel distribution sector has stopped arguing for open markets. At the EUROMETAL Regional Meeting Central Europe, held…
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Brussels imposes emergency quotas and minimum import prices of up to 3,500 euros a tonne on electrical steel, transformer cores and laminations, protecting an entire value chain for the first time BRUSSELS, 20 September 2026 – The European Union has moved to rescue one of the last strategically critical steel products it still makes at…
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Europe’s new steel import regime has lifted domestic prices more than 16 per cent this year and pushed foreign competition down the value chain, where no tariff reaches it BRUSSELS, 19 September 2026 – The European Union set out in 2026 to defend its steelmakers, and by the measure it set itself the policy has…
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Indonesia’s anti-dumping committee opens an investigation into Chinese galvanised steel after finding Beijing supplied 81 per cent of a 2.56 million tonne import wave JAKARTA, 19 September 2026 – Indonesia has become the latest Southeast Asian economy to turn its trade defence machinery on Chinese steel. On 15 September the Indonesian Anti-Dumping Committee, known by…
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European Parliament votes to pull hundreds of downstream steel and aluminium goods into the carbon border levy, and Europe’s metals supply chain says the fix is still only half built BRUSSELS, 19 September 2026 – Europe’s carbon border tariff is about to stop being a raw materials instrument. On 15 September the European Parliament voted…
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Stellantis tells its workers that trade policy has destroyed the business case for a 269-acre Ontario assembly plant, Unifor declares an impasse as the contract expires, and Ottawa discovers the limits of a tariff strategy that cannot keep a factory open. BRAMPTON, Ont., Sept. 20, 2026 The collective agreement covering more than 9,000 Stellantis workers…
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Global Affairs Canada concedes its import permit system buckled under an exceptional volume of steel applications, generating duplicate permits and exposing how thin Canadian steel quota has become OTTAWA, September 20, 2026 Canada’s steel import quota system failed under its own demand this week, and the government has acknowledged it. Global Affairs Canada issued a…
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Canada Gazette publication puts the Trade Tribunal’s safeguard report on the public record, laying out a three-year quota and surtaxes of up to 50 per cent on canned vegetable imports OTTAWA, September 20, 2026 The formal notice of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s safeguard report on vegetable imports appeared in the Canada Gazette on September…
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The Trade Tribunal rescinds an eleven-year-old order on Chinese photovoltaic modules and laminates, ending SIMA duties immediately and reshaping the economics of Canadian solar procurement OTTAWA, September 19, 2026 Canada has quietly removed one of its longest-standing trade barriers against Chinese clean energy equipment, and the effect was immediate. The Canadian International Trade Tribunal terminated…