Tag: Trade Policy

  • EU China Clash

    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.…

  • CBAM Bites

    Eramet says Indonesian nickel pig iron has effectively lost the European market as the carbon border levy enters its first year of real charging JAKARTA and PARIS, September 30, 2026 / The European Union’s carbon border adjustment mechanism has produced its first clear casualty in the base metals trade. Eramet, the French mining and metals…

  • EU Melt Rule

    Brussels switches on melt-and-pour origin tracing as the 50 percent out-of-quota duty bites, redrawing the map of who may sell steel into Europe BRUSSELS, October 1, 2026 / The European Union’s steel import regime crossed its most consequential threshold on Wednesday night, as the melt-and-pour origin requirement written into Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 took effect and…

  • Lobby Lockout

    Peter Navarro told Canadian lobbyists to get off K Street and warned against interference in the midterms. Mark Carney laughed, took note, and declined to escalate. Behind the theatre sits a serious question about how Canada argues its case in Washington when the usual channels are closed. VANCOUVER, October 1, 2026. The most consequential Canadian…

  • Steel Squeeze

    Stelco is idling finishing lines in Hamilton and cutting 350 jobs in the same week that small Canadian fabricators say Ottawa’s own quota wall has priced them out of Canadian steel. The protection is working at one end of the chain and failing at the other. HAMILTON, Ontario, October 1, 2026. Canada’s steel policy is…

  • Ban Takes Hold

    Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on nearly US$1 billion of Canadian dairy, alcohol and motorcycles came into force on September 29, converting a tariff wall into a closed door and leaving Canadian exporters with no duty-paid workaround. OTTAWA, October 1, 2026. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 29, United States Customs and Border Protection…

  • Delhi Duty Wave

    India opens seven anti-dumping investigations against Chinese goods in a single day, spanning antibiotics, tyre resins, lift rails and polyurethane chemistry, as the bilateral deficit tops 112 billion dollars NEW DELHI, September 30, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies issued seven separate notifications dated September 29 initiating anti-dumping investigations into imports originating in China,…

  • EU Squeeze Play

    Washington and Beijing name 1,696 product lines for mutual tariff relief and European exporters read the list with alarm, because much of what the Americans are about to sell more cheaply into China is what Europe already sells there BRUSSELS, September 30, 2026 The United States and China published the product lists underpinning their “30-for-30”…

  • Pea Duty Locked

    Brussels converts provisional measures into five years of definitive anti-dumping duties of 40.5 to 67.1 percent on Chinese pea protein, reshaping the economics of a 175 million euro European ingredient market BRUSSELS, September 30, 2026 The European Commission has locked in definitive anti-dumping duties of between 40.5 and 67.1 percent on imports of pea protein…

  • Brussels Alarm

    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…