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Trade
Trade news from MLex covers the risks and opportunities associated with global trade and investment. MLex closely follows trade agreements, negotiations, disputes, restrictive measures, deals and law changes, so you can have accurate and forward-looking information on how these regulations impact cross-border commerce. The selected stories below represent some of the latest trade news reporting from our investigative journalists across the globe.
Recent Trade articles
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After building global supply chains over the past several decades, many Japanese companies are now reviewing and realigning them, as new trade restrictions pop up amid rising tensions between the US and China. -
Wrangling over an EU trade weapon seen as sorely needed to address hostile economic actions by China -
EU has been tightening its grip on imports benefiting from cross-border subsidies that China uses to expand its clout -
EU exporters of metals, cement and fertilizers are pushing for rebates to be included under the proposed CBAM -
EU is committed to introducing a carbon border levy for polluting goods, in the face of calls from the heads of the IMF and WTO -
Marketplace is now one of the world’s most popular e-commerce sites, serving dozens of countries -
The “fit for 55” package sets out exactly how the EU executive plans to reduce the bloc’s emissions by 55 percent. -
US Customs and Border Protection to block the import of goods suspected to have been made with forced labor. -
UK steelmakers will soon face stiffer competition from foreign rivals for products such as tin mill and wire rod. -
EU-bound steel goods will continue to face “safeguard” restrictions for another three years as part of the bloc’s bid to offset US steel tariffs. -
EU public-procurement markets should be restricted for businesses from countries whose own markets are not open to European companies. -
Planned EU trade defense tariffs have become more likely to sail through approval processes without opposition during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thyssenkrupp Materials' discrimination challenge against the US Commerce Department left out relief on steel and aluminum imports. -
The EU has begun a legal action against the UK government after its decision to extend the grace period for some post-Brexit agrifood import controls in Northern Ireland. -
Twist ties from China have been assigned a final US antisubsidy rate of 111.96 percent, with no offsetting for the devaluation of Chinese currency. -
The EU will strengthen its trade policy tools to be able to “effectively” respond to “multiple scenarios” on the world stage. -
The UK’s plan to roll over EU trade-defense measures after the end of Brexit transition period has drawn the opposition of Russia and China. -
Sweeping changes to US trade enforcement regulations are underway, and the Commerce Department appears to be intent on finalizing them. -
In US antidumping cases, the Commerce Department believes it has discretion to significantly increase import duties on dumped products. -
The Trump administration will investigate the national security impact of foreign-sourced materials used to make electrical transformers. -
The US Department of Justice withdrew comments it filed last week in a trade remedy investigation on mattresses from eight countries. -
An interagency panel to monitor Mexico’s labor reforms. A rule to delay compliance for some auto companies. -
Covid-19, hurricane season spark Duracell, Energizer push to lift tariffs on China-sourced batteriesEnergizer Holdings and Duracell say their operations won’t be able to meet an upcoming surge of demand for batteries during the coronavirus pandemic. -
The European Commission is planning to temporarily suspend tariffs and value-added tax on imported protective medical equipment in response to the worsening Covid-19 crisis, MLex has learned. -
Electric surgical tools, heating systems, air filters, respiratory devices, tankless water heaters and machines that make medical masks are among the imports for which businesses this week have sought US relief from China tariffs in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. -
US steel importers plan to bring their legal bid against the Trump administration’s metal tariffs to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court today rejected claims the national security authority used to justify the levies violates the Constitution. -
A new US trade accord with China won't mean the end of the Trump administration's attempts to constrain its trans-Pacific rival. -
The Trump administration's classified national security car tariff report may emerge from the shadows next month after the US Congress today sent the White House a 2020 federal spending bill that contains a requirement to publicize the details. -
US President Donald Trump may help weaken his national security rationale for the additional duties he imposed on foreign steel and aluminum nearly two years ago if the administration follows through with a new tariff threat on Brazil and Argentina. -
Will leaving the EU’s single market turn the UK into a light-touch entrepôt or a protectionist backwater? For more than three years, the rhetorical debate has raged, but now the thesis that Brexit will herald an experiment in deregulation can be tested against a body of evidence. -
A new watchdog memo raising flags about the US Department of Commerce’s metal tariff exclusion system may help shape congressional efforts to reform the president’s national security trade authority. -
Northern Ireland could lose out on parts of future UK trade deals, including a planned agreement with the US, should Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal win approval from lawmakers. -
US sanctions against the EU over illegal subsidies to Airbus are still on the cards, after yesterday’s meeting between EU trade chief Cecilia Malmström and her US counterpart Robert Lighthizer failed to produce a breakthrough, MLex has learned. -
Telecom manufacturer Huawei takes on the US government this week in a federal courthouse deep inside Texas, where attorneys for the Chinese company will argue Congress acted unconstitutionally by excluding it from obtaining contracts funded with federal money. -
Digital trade is slated to be one of the core issues in an upcoming trade deal between the US and Japan, and the Trump administration’s rewrite of the North American agreement will shed light on what’s to come. -
Baowu Steel, Posco, Tata Steel and other global steelmakers will be able to export less steel to Europe tariff-free than previously expected under the European Commission’s revised safeguard measure due out today, MLex has learned. -
LG's effort to have the US impose tariffs on belt-drive washers isn't getting much sympathy from the US International Trade Commission. -
Chinese telecom giant Huawei and the US government will not be doing business, and the United States is not ready to make a bilateral trade deal with China, President Donald Trump said today. -
Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler Finance will both find out on Sept. 24 if they have been successful in their respective court appeals against two landmark EU state aid tax decisions, MLex has learned. -
JSW USA’s product-exclusion request from the 25 percent national security tariff on steel imports was mishandled by the Commerce Department, Indian manufacturer JSW Steel’s American unit said in a complaint filed today at the Court of International Trade.
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US importers are still in the dark over how to comply with President Donald Trump’s abrupt plan to levy escalating tariffs next week on Mexico under a four-decade-old emergency authority that has never been used to impose duties. -
The EU’s trade partners may face more stringent demands from the European Parliament in its coming five-year term when it comes to striking trade deals, after green and liberal candidates made gains at the expense of the traditional center-right and center-left groupings. -
The European Commission recently dropped an EU-wide proposal to tax digital services seen as discriminatory to large American tech firms, but the US remains on edge. -
US steel suppliers, importers ask Supreme Court to review Trump national security metal tariff orderA group of US steel suppliers and importers is seeking to bypass an appeal and take its constitutional challenge to the Trump administration’s national security metal tariff order directly to the nation’s highest court. -
Cyber-espionage is "a serious and growing threat," the United States' top prosecutor told Congress today, asking for more money to upgrade and enhance the cybersecurity and investigative capabilities of the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr said countering Chinese espionage was the "highest priority." -
Fertilizer producers from Russia, Trinidad & Tobago and the US might face provisional dumping duties ranging from 16.3 percent to 39.3 percent, after EU investigators found that their exports into the bloc are unfairly priced, MLex has learned. -
US beef farmers could soon gain easier access to the EU’s market, as the bloc’s executive arm agreed in principle to allocate to the US an exclusive quota of 35,000 metric tons of "not hormone-treated" beef, MLex has learned. A fenced-off allocation is part of the EU’s global 45,000 tone hormone-free quota. -
Apple has told the International Trade Commission that if iPhone imports are banned by the agency, a six-month delay in carrying out the order would be appropriate. Qualcomm, however, said it opposes any holdup because Apple and its chip supplier, Intel, already had ample time to redesign a smartphone that avoids infringing a Qualcomm patent. -
The needs of UK consumers and producers should be balanced in the event of a no-deal Brexit, but tariffs should be cut where possible, Trade Secretary Liam Fox told lawmakers today. -
Four more steel products could fall under the scope of EU safeguard measures that will come into effect next month under proposed definitive measures by the European Commission.