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On October 13, 2026, USTR requested Mexico's review of alleged labor-rights violations at Carolina Performance Fabrics in Guanajuato under the USMCA Rapid Response Labor Mechanism. The United States suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from this facility, which makes high-performance automotive textiles. Mexico has 10 days to agree to a review and, if it agrees, 45 days from October 13 to complete it.
Procedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country MX → Import country US · HS All
On October 13, 2026, Commerce published preliminary results of its July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025 review of welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Vietnam, proposing a 90.80% dumping margin for the Vietnam-wide entity. Case briefs are due within 21 days of publication, with rebuttal briefs due five days after the case-brief deadline. Any cash-deposit rates established by this review would apply only upon publication of final results.
Anti-dumpingProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country VN → Import country US · HS 73
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
On October 9, 2026, Commerce published preliminary results of its 2024–2025 review of Thai passenger vehicle and light-truck tyres, proposing a 1.14% dumping margin for Sumitomo Rubber (Thailand) and the non-examined companies covered by the review. Case briefs are due within 21 days of publication, with rebuttals due five days after the case-brief deadline. New cash-deposit rates would apply only upon publication of final review results.
Anti-dumpingProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country TH → Import country US · HS 40 · 87
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
Commerce's October 9, 2026 preliminary review results propose dumping margins of 20.08% for Nice Packaging (Cambodia), Brandart and TB Packaging (Cambodia), and 73.30% for UUPak, on certain paper shopping bags for the 2024–2025 review. Case briefs are due within 21 days of publication and rebuttals within five days after that deadline. New cash-deposit rates would take effect only when final review results are published.
Anti-dumpingProcedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country KH → Import country US · HS 48
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
China imposed a temporary export prohibition on helium (customs code 2804.29.0010), effective immediately, through MOFCOM-GACC Joint Announcement No. 29 of 2026, issued July 10. The ban covers all destinations, states no end date and provides no exemptions. Its legal basis is the Foreign Trade Law rather than the Export Control Law, and the stated rationale is protecting domestic supply as renewed Middle East conflict disrupts global helium flows; China imports over 80% of its helium. Helium is critical to semiconductor manufacturing as a cooling and purge gas, so the measure lands hardest on chip-adjacent supply chains. It is China's first new trade countermeasure since the June 22 export-control list additions covering 10 US firms and the June 24 supply-chain investigation rules.
Procedures & reviewsExport controls
Coverage: Export country CN → Import country All · HS 28
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
Houthi forces resumed attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea after a months-long lull — the first sustained attacks since late 2025. On July 5 a bulker came under gunfire about 30 nautical miles southwest of Hodeidah, with the crew safe; on July 6 the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulker Magic Seas was attacked 51 nautical miles southwest of Al-Hudaydah with drones, missiles, RPGs and small arms — the crew of 22 abandoned ship and the vessel sank, as confirmed by Houthi-released video. On July 7 the Greek-owned Eternity C was attacked by UAVs and RPG-armed speedboats and sank on July 9; 4 crew were killed and 11 mariners, Indian and Filipino, were seized and remained in Houthi custody as of July 10. The Houthis declared a ban on ships they deem 'Israeli-linked,' and US MARAD issued advisory 2026-006 for the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb and Gulf of Aden. Suez containership transits were already about 60% below pre-crisis levels — roughly 26 per week versus about 80 — and Maersk had re-diverted select services via the Cape of Good Hope from March 2026. The sinkings entrench Cape routing, which typically adds 10-14 days of transit plus higher fuel and war-risk premiums on Asia-Europe and Asia-US East Coast lanes.
Procedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country All · HS All
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.
On July 9, 2026 the European Commission opened a public consultation, with feedback accepted until August 6, 2026, on a draft delegated regulation governing the sale and repurchase of CBAM certificates, the operation of the common central platform, fees, and the platform's interaction with the CBAM Registry. Under the draft, certificates are non-transferable and non-tradable; each carries a unique ID and is assigned exclusively to the purchasing declarant. Declarants place purchase and repurchase requests in the CBAM Registry, and the platform processes the payments. Certificates go on sale February 1, 2027, and the first surrender deadline is September 30, 2027, covering 2026 imports. 2026 remains a data-collection year with no quarterly reports and no certificate purchases; the Q2 2026 reference price of €75.28, published July 6, is the latest price signal.
Procedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country EU · HS 72 · 73 · 76 · 25 · 28 · 31
On July 6, 2026 the European Commission published the Q2 2026 CBAM certificate quarterly reference price: €75.28/tCO2e, versus €75.36 for Q1 (published April 7), computed as the weighted average of EU ETS auction clearing prices over the quarter. Publication is quarterly through 2026 and moves to weekly from 2027. Compliance framing under the definitive regime in force since January 1, 2026: the transitional quarterly CBAM reports ended with the Q4 2025 report — there is no quarterly declaration due July 6 and no certificate purchases in 2026. This year's obligations are limited to importers above the 50-tonne/year de minimis becoming authorised CBAM declarants and collecting verified emissions data. Certificate sales open February 1, 2027 on the central platform, and the first annual CBAM declaration plus certificate surrender deadline is September 30, 2027 (postponed from the original May 31, 2027). With the 2026 adjustment factor at 2.5%, the cash impact stays small this year (roughly €1-4 per tonne of imported steel); the price matters mainly for modeling the 2027-2034 ramp.
Procedures & reviews
Coverage: Export country All → Import country EU · HS 72 · 73 · 76 · 25 · 28 · 31