Tag: Trade Negotiations
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Three days before the European Union’s trade chief was due in Beijing, Paris and Berlin demanded a legal weapon capable of cutting a third country out of the single market. Brussels is now negotiating and arming at the same time, and China has begun saying so in public. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. Maros Sefcovic travels…
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Beijing opens an anti-dumping investigation into European p-nitrotoluene days before its trade chief meets the EU in a make-or-break session, turning a niche chemical into a test of whether the world’s second and third largest trading powers can still negotiate BRUSSELS / BEIJING, 6 October 2026 – China’s Ministry of Commerce has opened a formal…
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Trump says he is “in no rush” to restart negotiations with Ottawa. A Jan. 1 deadline would double tariffs on Canadian-built vehicles and parts to 50 per cent, and the industry has twelve weeks to plan around a conversation nobody is having. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026. President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he…
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Washington’s top trade negotiator says a handful of outstanding files are “quite difficult to resolve,” and rules out a return to zero tariffs, leaving Canadian exporters staring down a January deadline on autos and steel MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3, 2026 The most senior trade official in the Trump administration has publicly lowered expectations for a near…
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Washington and Beijing move to unwind duties on roughly $60 billion of two-way trade, but the carve-outs tell importers more than the headline number does WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The United States and China have agreed to roll back tariffs on approximately $60 billion of bilateral trade under a reciprocal framework that trade officials on…
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Japan has agreed sanitary terms allowing Argentine beef back after twenty years, but a 38.5 percent tariff and no quota leave the deal’s commercial value hostage to the trade architecture Buenos Aires has yet to negotiate BUENOS AIRES / TOKYO, October 2, 2026 Argentina has secured agreement with Japan on the animal health requirements that…
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With a self-imposed October deadline days away and a goods deficit running above one billion euro a day, Brussels is weighing horizontal safeguards against Chinese industrial imports while preparing a trade diversification instrument for December. BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 The European Union enters the final days of September with the most consequential deadline in its…
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The European Union and the Philippines have closed negotiations on a free trade agreement covering 94 percent of tariff lines and 97 percent of bilateral trade, opening Philippine public procurement to foreign bidders for the first time and beating the 2027 expiry of duty free preferences. BRUSSELS AND MANILA, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 After a decade…
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Ambassador Greer convenes G20 trade ministers in Milwaukee this week with an agenda built around forced labor, steel overcapacity and a rewrite of the most favored nation principle, testing whether Washington can turn a tariff program into a multilateral rulebook MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – Trade ministers from the world’s largest economies arrive in Wisconsin…
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Greer hosts the G20 trade ministers this week with conditional most favored nation treatment on the agenda, a steel overcapacity ministerial bolted to the front of it, and the memory of a finance track that could not agree a communique four weeks ago. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer opens…