Tag: Trade Defence
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A 6,565 tonne chemical nobody outside the dye industry has heard of became Beijing’s opening move five days before the European trade commissioner landed BEIJING, October 8, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce opened an anti-dumping investigation on Saturday, October 3, into imports of para-nitrotoluene originating in the European Union, a decision whose commercial stakes are…
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France and Germany want Brussels to be able to shut Chinese goods out of the single market within 24 hours. China’s commerce ministry says the instrument would backfire. The European Parliament weighs in next week, and the Commission tables its package in December. BRUSSELS, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting The European Union is…
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With Sefcovic bound for Beijing and a December package of trade instruments in preparation, Brussels is weighing how far it is willing to go BRUSSELS, September 30, 2026 / European officials have begun describing October as make-or-break for the bloc’s commercial relationship with China, a characterisation that until recently would have been dismissed as rhetorical.…
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Beijing warns it will respond resolutely to any Section 301 style European trade instrument, days before Maros Sefcovic flies to Beijing with an October deadline and a 360 billion euro deficit on the table BRUSSELS / BEIJING, September 30, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce warned on September 29 that it will “respond resolutely” if the…
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Ursula von der Leyen tells the European Parliament that the second China shock has already arrived, converting a decade of academic argument into the operating doctrine of European trade policy STRASBOURG, 18 September 2026. The President of the European Commission used her annual State of the Union address on Wednesday to declare that the economic…
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Brussels fixes 8 to 9 October in Beijing as the moment China must show “credible” movement on a trade gap running at more than one billion euros a day, and signals that failure will trigger the bloc’s harder instruments BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union has put a date and a test on its…
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Brussels opens an absorption reinvestigation into Chinese titanium dioxide, testing whether exporters have swallowed anti-dumping duties and setting the stage for even higher tariffs on a pigment that colours everything from paint to paper By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, Aug. 31, 2026. The European Commission has opened a rare absorption reinvestigation into…
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Dispute Settlement Body adopts panel report largely upholding EU anti-dumping duties on Indonesian fatty acid, handing Brussels a rules-based win while ordering a narrow fix to its dumping calculations By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting GENEVA, Aug. 31, 2026. The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body on Friday formally adopted the panel report in…
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Brussels hits Chinese benzyl alcohol and sodium benzoate with steep provisional anti-dumping duties, opening a new chemicals front in Europe’s widening trade-defence campaign. BRUSSELS, July 29, 2026 – Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 116.4 percent on two workhorse industrial chemicals from China took effect across the European Union today, the latest and most pointed…
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The Council’s 21st Russia sanctions package puts an unprecedented cohort of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong firms on the EU blacklist, jolting a commercial relationship already frayed by duties on electric cars, tyres, steel and even duck meat. BRUSSELS, July 26, 2026. The Council of the European Union adopted its 21st package of restrictive measures…