Washington readies Phase Two semiconductor duties as Seoul and Taipei bargain for relief and markets brace for higher electronics prices WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. The Trump administration’s plan for a second, far broader round of semiconductor tariffs hardened into the dominant story in global trade over the past several days, as negotiators from South Korea…
Commerce Secretary puts semiconductor tariff Phase Two on the record at the G20, and the exemption math threatens laptops, servers, consoles and the AI buildout itself WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The Trump administration’s long-signaled second wave of semiconductor tariffs moved from anonymous deliberation to on-record policy this week, after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed on…
The European Commission has disclosed definitive anti-dumping duties of 5.6% to 28% on cold-rolled flat steel from India, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam, tightening the screws on Asian and Turkish suppliers while denying EU mills the retroactive collection they had sought. BRUSSELS, August 11, 2026 The European Commission has moved to impose definitive anti-dumping duties…
Australia opens a high-stakes sunset review of its fourteen-year-old antidumping wall on steel pipe and tube from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea, with a verdict due by February 2027 CANBERRA, August 5, 2026: Australia’s Anti-Dumping Commission has opened a review that will decide the fate of one of the country’s longest-running trade remedies. In…
Japan begins collecting provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 42.1 percent on stainless steel from China and Taiwan, one of Tokyo’s most assertive trade remedy actions in years and a fresh fault line in Asia’s crowded steel trade International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting TOKYO, July 9, 2026 – Japan began collecting provisional anti-dumping duties…