Tag: Trade Defence

  • EU TiO2 Probe

    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…

  • WTO Backs EU

    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…

  • EU Duty Blitz

    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…

  • EU Sanction Jab

    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…

  • Beijing Hits EU

    China bans dual-use exports to Rheinmetall and 13 other European entities in a swift, list-for-list reprisal against the EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package, pulling rare earths, photonics and defence supply chains deeper into a widening trade confrontation. BEIJING, July 26, 2026. Two days after China’s Ministry of Commerce placed 14 European Union entities on its…

  • UK Bike Duties

    London formalises anti-dumping duties of up to 48.5 percent on Chinese bicycles and parts through August 2029, extending one of the longest-running trade defence measures in the world and closing the book on its post-Brexit review Peacock Tariff Consulting | International Trade Desk | July 24, 2026 LONDON, July 24, 2026. The United Kingdom this…

  • 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…

  • 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.…