Tag: Trade Remedies


  • Pecan Pushback

    Mexico’s Economy Secretariat is scrambling to reverse China’s provisional anti-dumping duties on pecans before they harden into definitive measures, with a 10-day response window already running. MEXICO CITY, August 14, 2026. Mexico’s federal government has opened a determined diplomatic and procedural counteroffensive against China this week, working to prevent Beijing’s newly imposed provisional anti-dumping duties…

  • Optic Duty Hold

    China locks in another five years of anti-dumping duties on Indian single-mode optical fiber, extending a trade barrier first erected in 2014 and now set to run through 2031. BEIJING, August 14, 2026. China will keep anti-dumping duties in place on imports of single-mode optical fiber originating from India for another five years, the country’s…

  • India AD Blitz

    India’s trade remedies authority is running one of its busiest anti-dumping dockets in memory this August, with hearings, recommendations and new probes overwhelmingly targeting Chinese goods across chemicals, steel, electronics and pharmaceuticals. NEW DELHI, August 14, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies convened an oral hearing on Friday afternoon in its anti-dumping investigation into…

  • Fibre Duty Stay

    China’s Ministry of Commerce has extended anti-dumping duties of 7.4 to 30.6 percent on Indian single-mode optical fibre for a further five years, prolonging one of the longest-running trade remedy disputes between the two Asian giants into its second decade. BEIJING, August 14, 2026 China’s anti-dumping duties on single-mode optical fibre from India entered a…

  • China Nut Levy

    Beijing orders provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 54.3 percent on American pecans and up to 51.6 percent on Mexican shipments, a preliminary ruling that redraws the map of the global nut trade and lands just ahead of an expected Xi-Trump summit. By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | peacocktariffconsulting.com BEIJING, August 13, 2026 –…

  • UK Ends Duties

    Britain has let its decade-old anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled flat steel from China and Russia expire, redrawing the import calculus for one of manufacturing’s most essential materials just weeks after a sweeping new steel tariff regime took effect. LONDON, August 7, 2026 The United Kingdom has terminated its definitive anti-dumping duties on cold-rolled flat steel…

  • Duty Blitz

    Commerce and the International Trade Commission published more than fifteen antidumping, countervailing duty and Section 337 actions in three days, touching Chinese aluminum extrusions, Malaysian mattresses, Spanish olives, Indian fluoropolymers and Turkish stainless pipe. The traditional trade remedy system is running at full capacity beneath the headline tariffs. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2026 While Washington’s attention…

  • Japan Steel AD

    Tokyo enacts provisional duties of 29.2 to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare deployment of trade remedies by the world’s third largest steel producer and the latest sign that Asia’s long tolerance of cheap steel imports is running out. TOKYO, August 13, 2026. Japanese customs officers began collecting…

  • Pharma Probe

    The public comment window closed Monday in the U.S. Trade Representative’s Section 301 investigation into Germany’s pharmaceutical pricing, hardening battle lines in a novel trade fight that could put tariffs on one of the world’s most sensitive industries. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 A first of its kind American trade investigation into how a close ally…

  • Steel Rift

    POSCO formally contests Japan’s first major anti-dumping duties on Korean steel, opening a high-stakes trade confrontation between two US allies as a far larger probe into hot-rolled and cold-rolled products looms in the background. SEOUL, Aug. 11, 2026 — South Korea’s flagship steelmaker POSCO has formally challenged the provisional anti-dumping duties Japan imposed last week…