Tag: Trade Defence
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Brussels has quietly cut the anti-dumping duties it plans to impose on Turkish cold rolled flat steel after two mills picked apart the Commission’s arithmetic. The reduction is modest in percentage terms, but it lands on an import channel that is already paying for quota scarcity and carbon costs, and it sets a marker for…
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Turkey’s trade minister tells an Istanbul steel summit that Europe’s halved quotas and carbon levy are costing the country’s largest export market, with shipments to the bloc down 6.7 percent and non-EU sales up 10 percent ISTANBUL, October 28, 2026 – Turkey’s iron and steel exports to the European Union fell 6.7 percent in the…
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Brussels is weighing import caps or tariffs on Chinese chemicals, furniture and machinery for the first quarter of 2027, using the hybrid car arrangement as a template and reserving the right to act without Beijing’s agreement BRUSSELS, October 26, 2026 – The European Commission is preparing import restrictions on Chinese chemicals, furniture and machinery that…
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Europe doubled its out of quota steel duty to 50 percent in July, but a first come first served allocation rule is letting Chinese seamless tube clear at an effective 22.53 percent, and the mills that lobbied for the regime have noticed BRUSSELS, October 26, 2026 – The European Union’s new steel safeguard was designed…
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Brussels cuts its proposed anti-dumping rates on two Turkish cold-rolled steel mills after conceding three calculation errors, and pulls forward publication of a five-country measure importers have been pricing since August BRUSSELS, October 26, 2026 – The European Commission has reduced the definitive anti-dumping duties it intends to impose on cold-rolled flat steel from Turkiye,…
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Brussels readies a December trade package built for speed as the bloc’s goods deficit with China nears 200 billion euros in six months, and the commissioner in charge says plastics are next in line DUBLIN, October 25, 2026 – The European Union has begun assembling a trade defence architecture designed around a single complaint its…
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With the goods deficit running above a billion euros a day, EU trade ministers meeting in Dublin backed extending the hybrid-car template to chemicals, machinery, agri-food and pharmaceuticals, and the Commission named plastics as the sector closest to a safeguard investigation DUBLIN, October 23, 2026 European Union trade ministers ended two days of informal talks…
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A hybrid vehicle quota becomes the template for a broader European import regime, with chemicals and machinery named as the next candidates and a rapid-response instrument under discussion, as Beijing warns it has a policy toolbox of its own BRUSSELS, October 21, 2026 – The European Union is preparing the next phase of its trade…
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EU leaders open a two-day European Council with Chinese import volumes at the top of the agenda, draft conclusions instructing the Commission to build new trade instruments, and a Franco-German paper pushing chemicals and PET plastic to the front of the queue BRUSSELS, October 15, 2026: The twenty-seven heads of state and government of the…
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EU leaders order work on a market-exclusion instrument as the bloc’s China deficit heads past 400 billion euros and Franco-German patience runs out BRUSSELS, October 16, 2026 – European Union leaders have instructed the European Commission to draft a trade instrument capable of shutting foreign goods out of the single market altogether, the most far-reaching…