Tag: Tariffs


  • Casein Quota

    MERCOSUR’s Trade Commission clears Argentina to renew a 160 tonne, 2 percent import window for food grade calcium caseinate, a narrow technical fix that lands squarely inside Buenos Aires’ wider drive to lower trade barriers. BUENOS AIRES, July 20, 2026. The Trade Commission of MERCOSUR has authorized Argentina to reopen a preferential import channel for…

  • Seoul Tube Duty

    South Korea extends its provisional anti-dumping duty on Thai seamless copper tubes, the newest move in an East Asian trade defence wave that now runs from copper piping to stainless steel coil. SEOUL, July 20, 2026. South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance on Monday extended the provisional anti-dumping duty on seamless copper tubes and…

  • Surplus Shock

    China’s trade surplus with the European Union hits an all-time high just as Brussels switches on its toughest trade defences in a generation, with duties on Chinese plug-in hybrids waiting in the wings. BRUSSELS, July 20, 2026. The uncomfortable arithmetic of Europe’s trade relationship with China caught up with Brussels this month. China’s trade surplus…

  • Delhi Steels Up

    India’s trade remedies authority has extended anti-dumping duties on Chinese seamless steel tubes and stretched the comment clock in its hot rolled steel probe against China, Japan and Russia, the latest reinforcements in a widening wall of trade defenses around the world’s second largest steel market. NEW DELHI, July 18. India’s steel trade defense wall…

  • Beijing’s Deal

    Two months after unveiling what it called broadly balanced and positive preliminary outcomes from the China-US economic and trade consultations, China’s Commerce Ministry is converting a framework of tariff ceilings, twin councils, and agricultural breakthroughs into facts on the ground, and the rest of the trading world is recalibrating. BEIJING, July 18 On Friday evening…

  • Steel Duty Held

    Canada’s trade tribunal renews anti-dumping duties on corrosion-resistant steel sheet from Turkiye and Vietnam for five more years, hardening a domestic defence line at a moment when United States tariffs are squeezing the industry from the south. OTTAWA, July 20, 2026. Canada has quietly renewed one of the oldest pillars of its steel trade defence.…

  • Lumber Tariff

    A temporary 10 per cent U.S. import tariff is set to lapse on July 24, but Canadian softwood still carries an effective burden near 35 per cent as the CUSMA review drifts and a December deadline looms. By the Canada Trade Desk | OTTAWA, July 18, 2026 A deadline that changes less than it seems…

  • Lumber Tariffs

    A temporary United States surcharge is set to lapse on July 24 and a long-delayed duty cut still sits unsigned, leaving Canadian softwood producers facing another week of tariff limbo and combined levies near 45 percent at the border. OTTAWA, July 20, 2026. Canada’s softwood lumber producers are heading into a pivotal week with more…

  • India-UK Pact

    India and the United Kingdom close the first trading week of their landmark economic pact with duty-free cargo moving through ports on both sides, new origin rules holding at the border, and exporters rewriting their price lists. NEW DELHI, July 19: The India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the most sweeping trade pact New…

  • India Steel Wall

    India’s trade remedies authority has extended anti-dumping duties on Chinese seamless steel tubes and stretched the comment clock in its hot rolled steel probe against China, Japan and Russia, the latest reinforcements in a widening wall of trade defenses around the world’s second largest steel market. NEW DELHI, July 18. India’s steel trade defense wall…