Tag: Tariff Rate Quota
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Five days into the European Union’s fourth-quarter steel quota window, the biggest supply lines were not merely full but queued two deep. The next legal opening is January 1, and the rulebook that governs it expires on New Year’s Eve. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. The European Union’s new permanent steel trade measure opened its fourth…
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Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Turkish and Taiwanese mills face a narrowing European door as the scope consultation closes on October 11 HANOI and BRUSSELS, October 1, 2026 / Asia’s steel exporters have eleven days to make their case in Brussels. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security opened a targeted consultation on September 28…
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Brussels switches on melt-and-pour origin tracing as the 50 percent out-of-quota duty bites, redrawing the map of who may sell steel into Europe BRUSSELS, October 1, 2026 / The European Union’s steel import regime crossed its most consequential threshold on Wednesday night, as the melt-and-pour origin requirement written into Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 took effect and…
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Stelco is idling finishing lines in Hamilton and cutting 350 jobs in the same week that small Canadian fabricators say Ottawa’s own quota wall has priced them out of Canadian steel. The protection is working at one end of the chain and failing at the other. HAMILTON, Ontario, October 1, 2026. Canada’s steel policy is…
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China’s 55 percent over-quota duty lands on Brazilian beef from October 1, shutting the world’s largest buyer to its largest supplier and redrawing protein trade lanes from the River Plate to Oceania BEIJING / BRASILIA, September 30, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce confirmed on Wednesday that an additional 55 percent tariff will apply to Brazilian…
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Eight weeks into the EU’s hardened steel import regime, quotas are running dry, importers are stuck at customs, and Brussels faces a Monday deadline to define the traceability rules that will govern the next phase. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The European Commission has less than a week to finalize one of the most consequential pieces…
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India’s first duty-free sugar import window in nearly a decade is already being rewritten on the fly, as tumbling domestic prices threaten to leave half the quota unused. NEW DELHI, August 25, 2026 Five days after New Delhi threw open its first duty-free sugar import window since the 2017-18 season, the program is simultaneously working…
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Four months into provisional tariff cuts, the EU-Mercosur pact is moving real goods across the Atlantic while its legal fate rests with judges in Luxembourg. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The EU-Mercosur trade relationship enters the final week of August in a condition that has no clean precedent in modern trade policy: tariffs are falling, quotas…
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A four million tonne steel quota at 25 per cent, aluminum halved, autos cut to 15 per cent and lumber left dangling. Inside the metals and vehicles package Ottawa had all but signed, and the reasons Canadian industry told the Prime Minister to walk away from it. TORONTO, AUGUST 24, 2026 For about 72 hours…
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Trump waives out-of-quota tariffs on 300,000 tonnes of ground beef for 90 days, drawing fire from ranchers and Republican allies as food prices dominate the midterm landscape WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2026 By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day suspension of out-of-quota tariffs on up to 300,000 metric…