Monday, August 03, 2026
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...
The US International Trade Commission’s latest update to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule is primarily a housekeeping and scope-adjustment revision. HTSUS Revision 11, effective 2 July 2026, introduces no changes to standard MFN duty rates. Instead, its nearly 460 changes are dominated by a large-scale statistical reclassification of commodity lines, mainly effective 1 July, and a...
The start of the third quarter triggered a vast, scheduled administrative reset of the UK tariff, with over 18,000 measures taking effect to renew steel safeguard quotas, agricultural TRQs, and anti-dumping duties on fertilisers. This foundational rollover, which confirmed policy continuity, was immediately followed by a pivot to new enforcement. Regulators introduced new trade defence...
The week in EU trade policy was dominated by a massive, scheduled regulatory transition marking the start of the second half-year. The renewal of the EU’s extensive steel safeguard quota regime on 1 July was the centrepiece, driving the activation or loading of tens of thousands of measures and concentrating activity in the iron and...
The UK’s trade landscape was reshaped by over 17,000 regulatory changes this week, a volume dominated by administrative restructuring and targeted policy implementation. The strategic headline was the activation of new 0% duty rates for Mexican beef and lamb, a major milestone in the UK’s accession to the CPTPP. This liberalisation occurred alongside a vast,...