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Commerce's October 14, 2026 preliminary countervailing duty review results propose a 3.98% subsidy rate for SRF Limited's Indian polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip for the 2024 review. Case briefs are due within 21 days of publication and rebuttals within five days after that deadline. Revised cash-deposit rates would apply only upon publication of final review results.
CountervailingTariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country IN → Import country US · HS 39
Commerce published continuation of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese boltless steel shelving units prepackaged for sale on October 14, 2026, with effect from September 29, 2026. Covered goods include add-on kits and units with or without decks. CBP will continue collecting cash deposits at the rates in effect at entry.
Anti-dumpingCountervailingTariffs
Coverage: Export country CN → Import country US · HS 94
BIS guidance applies from 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on October 14, 2026 to covered Canadian and Mexican products qualifying for USMCA preferences under clause (2)(d) of Proclamation 11032. US content includes the value attributable to parts wholly obtained, entirely produced or substantially transformed in the United States, plus previously uncounted value attributable to steel melted and poured there or aluminum or copper smelted and cast there.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country CA · MX → Import country US · HS 84 · 87
A preliminary resolution published in the DOF on October 12, 2026 imposes a provisional anti-dumping duty of US$68.60 per adult bicycle originating in China, effective October 13 for six months. Covered bicycles have wheels over 20 inches; racing/road and electric bicycles are excluded. It covers definitive and temporary imports, regardless of dispatch country, under tariff line 8712.00.05 or any other line. Participating interested parties have 20 working days from the resolution's entry into force to submit additional arguments and evidence.
Anti-dumpingTariffs
Coverage: Export country CN → Import country MX · HS 8712
Commerce published final results of the 2023 countervailing duty review of certain Korean hot-rolled steel flat products on October 9, 2026, establishing rates of 1.28% for Hyundai Steel and 3.68% for POSCO. These rates apply to cash deposits for covered shipments entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after October 9, 2026. Firms not reviewed retain their applicable company-specific or all-others deposit rates.
CountervailingTariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country KR → Import country US · HS 72
Regulation (EU) 2026/2245, published on October 9, requires registration from October 10, 2026 of certain Chinese-origin polyvinyl alcohols manufactured by Sinopec Chongqing SVW Chemical and Sinopec Great Wall Energy & Chemical Ningxia, under TARIC 3905300091. Registration lasts nine months and allows possible retroactive anti-dumping duties; no estimated future duty amount is specified. Customs authorities must defer duty repayment or remission decisions for these products until the regulation concluding the re-examination enters into force.
Anti-dumpingTariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country CN → Import country EU · HS 3905
MOFCOM published Announcement No. 46 on October 9, 2026, setting 2027 import tariff-rate quotas of 1,945,000 tonnes for sugar, 287,000 tonnes for wool and 80,000 tonnes for wool tops. Sugar applications run from October 15 to October 30, 2026, with 70% of the sugar quota reserved for state trading. Wool and wool-top quotas are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis against import contracts.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country CN · HS 17 · 51
Verified 2026-10-08: §122 was 10% and expired 2026-07-24. Forced-labor §301 took effect 2026-07-24 at 10%–12.5%, with product exemptions and country-specific combined-rate rules.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country US · HS All
Two weeks into the EU's new steel import regime — Regulation (EU) 2026/1384, in force July 1 with quotas cut 47%, a 50% over-quota tariff and a melt-and-pour origin rule, with country allocations set by temporary Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1457 — first-come-first-served quotas are already exhausting. Per trade-press tracking (GMK Center analysis of July 14; SteelOrbis), Turkey's Category 1A hot-rolled coil quota was oversubscribed on day one, with 229,564 tonnes requested against 160,574 tonnes allocated — a 43% overage; Turkey's HRC allocation stands roughly 60% below the prior safeguard level (642,249 t vs 1.59 Mt). India exhausted its quotas for non-alloy/alloy hot-rolled sheets (225,305 t) and stainless bars and light sections (31,765 t), with 3,818 t and 410 t respectively waiting at EU ports facing the 50% over-quota duty. Internationally, Brazil warned of possible retaliatory trade-defense measures, Taiwan reserved its WTO rights, Japan's steel industry called the measures unfair (a quota of roughly 800 kt against average 2022-24 exports of 1.5 Mt), and Ukraine is hardest hit with a quota of about 1.05 Mt against 2.63 Mt of 2025 exports. No formal WTO challenge had been filed as of July 14.
TariffsProcedures & reviewsSafeguards
Coverage: Export country TR · IN · KR · CN · JP · UA → Import country EU · HS 72 · 73
The UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the accompanying Double Contribution Convention both entered into force on July 15, 2026, HMRC confirmed in a trade-tariff notice published July 13. The agreement was signed on July 24, 2025 and completed ratification after a House of Commons debate on February 9, 2026 and a House of Lords debate on March 4, 2026. Under the CETA, 99% of Indian exports enter the UK duty-free, while India removes tariffs on roughly 64% of UK product lines, including salmon, lamb, aircraft parts, machinery and electronics. India's tariff on Scotch whisky drops from 150% to 75% immediately, staging down to 40% over 10 years, with gin cuts similarly staged. The UK government estimates beverage exports to India could rise by 180%, worth around £700 million.
Tariffs
Coverage: Export country IN · UK → Import country UK · IN · HS All
Verified 2026-10-08: §122 was 10% and expired 2026-07-24. Forced-labor §301 took effect 2026-07-24 at 10%–12.5%, with product exemptions and country-specific combined-rate rules.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country US · HS All
July 10, 2026 was the USTR deadline for public comments on the design of the US-China 'Board of Trade' mechanism and on the scope of up to $30 billion of tariff relief for 'non-sensitive' Chinese imports; rebuttal comments run through July 27 under the docket opened in June. On the agricultural track, Bloomberg reported July 2 — with subsequent July 8 trade-press reporting — that the two sides agreed in principle for the US to end its 10% fentanyl-related tariff and for China to reciprocally drop its 10% retaliatory tariff on US agricultural goods including soybeans and grains, targeting roughly October 1, 2026. As of July 15, however, no announcement from China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has formalized the reduction. China's stated purchase commitments are at least 25 million tons of soybeans per year through 2028 and at least $17 billion per year of US agricultural products; actual new-season bookings so far total only about 200,000 tons. For context, GACC June data released July 14 showed China's exports up 27% year on year — the fastest pace since October 2021 — with shipments to the US up 14%.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country CN → Import country US · HS All
Verified 2026-10-08: §122 was 10% and expired 2026-07-24. Forced-labor §301 took effect 2026-07-24 at 10%–12.5%, with product exemptions and country-specific combined-rate rules.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country US · HS All
Per trade-bar reporting by Thompson Hine in July 2026, a presidential proclamation issued July 9 concluded the Section 232 investigation into commercial aircraft, jet engines and parts that was initiated in May 2025. Commerce found that the imports threaten national security, but the Secretary recommended no immediate tariffs. Instead, the proclamation directs Commerce and USTR to pursue negotiated agreements with trading partners, with a status update due to the President in 180 days — around January 5, 2027 — and tariff remedies expressly reserved if the talks fail. This is the first Section 232 case of this administration resolved via a negotiation directive rather than immediate duties.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country US · HS 88
The European Commission imposed definitive anti-dumping duties of 4.3% to 45.3% on new pneumatic rubber tyres for passenger cars and light lorries (load index up to 121) from China, announced July 9, 2026, with the regulation published in the Official Journal (L series, 2026/1540) on July 7. The injury findings cite 2024 EU consumption of roughly 330 million units worth about €18 billion, against Chinese imports of 93 million units worth about €2.5 billion — a 28% market share — while the EU tyre industry employs more than 80,000 people across 14 member states. A parallel anti-subsidy (countervailing) investigation into the same product concludes in December 2026, meaning combined duties are possible from that point. In the same week, the Commission opened its first-ever anti-dumping investigation into a Chinese agricultural product — Pekin duck meat, following a complaint by five EU producers, opened July 9, per Borderlex and SCMP reporting. On July 14 the Commission also published its first review of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, finding it 'fit for purpose' with procedural simplifications planned for autumn 2026.
Verified 2026-10-08: §122 was 10% and expired 2026-07-24. Forced-labor §301 took effect 2026-07-24 at 10%–12.5%, with product exemptions and country-specific combined-rate rules.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country CN · IN · JP · KR · VN · MX · BR · EU · ID · PK · EC · CA · BD · KH · TH · MY · SG · TW → Import country US · HS 61 · 62 · 63 · 64 · 84 · 85 · 87 · 03 · 04 · 07 · 08 · 27
On July 1, 2026 the three USMCA parties held the mandatory first joint review, conducted virtually under Article 34.7. USTR Ambassador Greer's same-day statement: 'The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form. As a result, the USMCA is not renewed.' The US refusal blocks the automatic 16-year extension to 2042 and shifts the agreement into annual joint reviews each July 1; absent a future consensus to extend, the USMCA terminates July 1, 2036 under Article 34.7's sunset mechanics (the 2036 date is drawn from law-firm analyses, not the USTR statement itself). Mexico (President Sheinbaum) and Canada had both submitted written support for the 16-year extension, having floated an extension to 2042 with 6-year reviews — rejected by the US; Economy Secretary Ebrard has floated a fallback of 10-year extension terms. The agreement remains fully in force meanwhile: tariff preferences, rules of origin and dispute settlement are unchanged, and roughly 85% of Mexican exports to the US still enter tariff-free under USMCA compliance. Mexico's next-phase priority is negotiating down US §232 steel/aluminum/auto tariffs, while Canada's retaliatory tariffs (~C$15.6bn on US steel/aluminum plus autos) remain in place.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country US · MX · CA · HS All
The UK's new steel trade measure — announced March 19, 2026, with formal details published June 30 on gov.uk and the UK Integrated Online Tariff — took effect July 1, 2026, replacing the old safeguard (quota plus 25% over-quota) which ended June 30. Duty-free quotas are cut 51% versus the old safeguard, and the over-quota tariff is a flat 50% ad valorem, calculated before other import duties. Coverage spans 20 product categories (hot-rolled coil, coated sheet, organic-coated, tinplate, plate, merchant bar, rebar, stainless bar, wire rod, sections, rail material, gas pipe, hollow sections, large welded tube, other welded tube, cold-worked bar, non-alloy wire, etc. — two more than the old measure). Country-specific quotas go to the EU, India, Korea, Vietnam, Turkey, Japan, the US, Switzerland, and the UAE; Ukraine is fully exempt under FTA preference. The quota period runs July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 with quarterly allocation; transitional relief fully exempts goods contracted before March 14, 2026 from the 50% over-quota duty during July 1 - September 30, 2026 (evidence required). Legal basis is the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Act 2018 as amended, while the US-UK §232 special arrangement continues separately (UK steel/aluminum at 25%/15% in the US, conditional on UK melt-and-pour). Combined with the EU's same-day measure, over-quota costs in the EU and UK markets are now uniformly 50% for non-FTA exporters including China.
TariffsSafeguards
Coverage: Export country All → Import country UK · HS 72 · 73
Verified 2026-10-08: §122 was 10% and expired 2026-07-24. Forced-labor §301 took effect 2026-07-24 at 10%–12.5%, with product exemptions and country-specific combined-rate rules.
TariffsProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country US · HS All
Regulation (EU) 2026/1384, published in the Official Journal around June 26, 2026, replaces the 2018-era steel safeguard (expired June 30) with a permanent mechanism applicable from July 1, 2026. The annual duty-free tariff-rate quota is set at 18,345,922 tonnes — a 47% cut versus the 2024 quota level, benchmarked to a 13% import share of 2024 EU consumption — and the over-quota tariff doubles from 25% to 50%. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1457 (adopted June 29, OJ June 30, applying July 1 through December 31, 2026) allocates country-specific quotas across 26 product categories: roughly half the quota (~9.17M t) is reserved for FTA partners, countries with a ≥5% import share in 2022-2024 receive country-specific quotas, and the remainder runs MFN first-come-first-served. A melt-and-pour origin declaration obligation (Mill Test Certificate documentation) applies from July 1, 2026, and from October 1, 2027 that data feeds quota allocation — designed to block third-country transshipment circumvention aimed at Chinese overcapacity. The EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) is excluded from scope and Russia is excluded via the sanctions ban; otherwise the measure applies to all third countries including FTA partners, administered quarterly with within-year carryover but no cross-year carryover. For non-FTA exporters including China this is the tightest EU steel access regime since 2018.
TariffsSafeguards
Coverage: Export country All → Import country EU · HS 72 · 73