Friday, October 23, 2026
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...
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...