Tag: Trade Remedies
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Commerce buys twenty more days to decide whether the U.S. corrugated industry really stands behind petitions that could put triple-digit duties on imported pizza boxes WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has given itself an extra twenty days to decide whether to launch antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into corrugated die-cut cardboard…
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Commerce opens a circumvention inquiry into Chinese aluminum composite panels, asking whether a thin plastic core is enough to escape duties that have stood since 2019 WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened a circumvention inquiry into aluminum composite panels produced in China, a step that could pull a widely used…
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Brasilia opened a fresh anti-dumping case against Chinese wire mesh on 1 October as the national steel lobby warned that falling Chinese volumes are being replaced by Vietnamese ones, and ArcelorMittal tied a ten billion real investment to import share falling further SAO PAULO AND BRASILIA, 3 OCTOBER 2026 Brazil spent this week demonstrating both…
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Commerce stacked preliminary antidumping and countervailing determinations across graphite electrodes and air compressors in a 48-hour span, with retroactive liquidation reaching back to May WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The Department of Commerce published a cluster of preliminary trade remedy determinations on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 that will impose cash deposit obligations on importers of…
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Five Reports on Global Trade Measures In this edition 1. Beef Quota Wall China’s safeguard surtax slams shut the world’s largest beef import market for Brazil, pushing the effective duty to 67 percent and forcing a global rerouting of protein trade in the final quarter of 2026 2. Melt Rule Bites The European Union’s melt…
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Beijing has warned that a European instrument modelled on Section 301 would be met with a “strong policy toolbox”, days before the EU trade chief lands in China with a daily trade deficit above one billion dollars on the table BRUSSELS / BEIJING, October 2, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce has delivered its sharpest warning…
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China’s safeguard surtax slams shut the world’s largest beef import market for Brazil, pushing the effective duty to 67 percent and forcing a global rerouting of protein trade in the final quarter of 2026 SAO PAULO / BEIJING, October 2, 2026 Brazil’s beef industry has run into the hardest trade barrier it has faced in…
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India re-quantifies anti-dumping duties on Bangladeshi and Nepali jute goods, pushing the top rate to 445 dollars a tonne and sorting exporters into winners and casualties DHAKA, 29 September 2026 India has rewritten the duty schedule on jute imports from Bangladesh and Nepal, raising the ceiling rate on yarn and twine to 445 dollars a…
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Brussels presses Beijing to accept product by product import quotas as an October deadline closes, reviving an instrument the world trading system outlawed three decades ago BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 The European Union is pressing China to accept quotas on specific products as the price of avoiding a wave of unilateral trade defence measures, a…
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Europe’s new steel wall hardens on 1 October as melt and pour proof becomes binding and a second quota tranche opens against near total exhaustion of the first BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 Europe’s steel importers have roughly 48 hours left before the most consequential customs paperwork requirement in a generation takes legal effect, and the…