Sunday, August 23, 2026
The European Union returned to an aggressive trade defence posture this week, with activity dominated by a massive package of anti-dumping measures. Regulators imposed sweeping new duties on glass fibre products from China and Egypt and on terephthalic acid from South Korea and Mexico. The week’s defining feature, however, was the EU’s sophisticated enforcement strategy,...
After a week that began with a massive administrative consolidation of existing trade defence measures and transitioned into routine agricultural tariff management, the European Union pivoted sharply back to an aggressive protectionist stance. The mid-week calm was broken by the imposition of significant new anti-dumping duties, first on lightweight thermal paper from China and then...
After four days of administrative quiet, UK trade policy saw significant implementation this week, defined by a strategic shift in the steel sector and a major reinforcement of trade defences for bicycles. The expiry of long-standing anti-dumping duties on certain Chinese steel products was immediately followed by the introduction of new tariff rate quotas on...
The European Union executed a significant protectionist shift this week, defined by a sustained and escalating campaign of trade defence actions. The week began with sweeping new controls on Russian industrial materials taking effect and was dominated by a series of immediate, high-rate anti-dumping duties on a widening array of Chinese goods, from chemicals and...
This week was marked by a significant tightening of UK trade policy, headlined by a major expansion of the anti-dumping regime for bicycles. New 48.5% duties were applied to imports from Malaysia and Pakistan, and in a key anti-circumvention move, to a wide range of bicycle components from China. Alongside this major trade defence action,...
A week largely defined by the routine activation of hundreds of seasonal agricultural tariffs took a sharp turn in its final hours with the imposition of significant new anti-dumping duties on a wide range of industrial goods from China. While the bulk of the 2,730 measures that took effect during the week were pre-planned updates...
After a quiet start, the week in UK trade policy was defined by a massive mid-week surge of activity. The dominant events were a significant liberalisation for Indian agricultural goods, with hundreds of new 0% duties taking effect, and a swift trade defence action that replaced an expiring anti-dumping duty on Chinese excavators with a...
This week in EU trade policy was a story of parallel streams. While the activation of over 300 pre-scheduled seasonal tariffs on fresh fruit dominated the middle of the week, regulators also signalled a new strategic focus by targeting Chinese glass microspheres for scrutiny. The week closed with a massive administrative update, loading nearly 800...
Following a quiet start to the month, the European Union’s trade policy took a sharp enforcement turn this week. Regulators launched a series of significant new trade defence actions, moving sequentially from the steel sector to the automotive supply chain and finally to agri-food. The week was defined by major new anti-dumping duties on tyres...
This week’s UK tariff activity was defined by a massive administrative cycle that finalised the third-quarter steel tariff rate quota regime, accounting for the vast majority of the week’s more than 7,300 changes. This large-scale but routine update occurred alongside significant policy implementation, as new anti-dumping duties on Indonesian biofuels took effect, confirming a post-quarter-end...