Manufacturing target dropped by EU countries from draft industry law
June 30, 2026
| Oscar Pandiello and Cynthia Kroet
A target for EU industry to account for 20 percent of the bloc’s gross domestic product by 2035 has been watered down in the first compromise text on the planned Industrial Accelerator Act, MLex has learned. T... (more story)
EU sets country-specific steel import quotas before new regime takes effect
June 30, 2026
| Cynthia Kroet
The European Commission on Tuesday published country-specific tariff-rate quotas for steel imports ahead of the entry into force of the EU's new steel import regime on July 1. The new rules cap duty-free steel... (more story)
Chinese polyether polypols come under EU dumping probe
June 30, 2026
| Karoline Del Vecchio
EU imports of Chinese polyether polypols are being probed over fears that they have been unfairly priced, causing injury to the bloc’s industry, the European Commission said. It is investigating a complaint lo... (more story)
US Supreme Court allows president to remove FTC commissioners
June 29, 2026
| Claude Marx and Dwight A. Weingarten
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act stating that members of the FTC can only be removed for cause are "incompatible with the separation of powers enshrined in ... (more story)
EU, China set up trade monitoring tool, expect progress on disputes by October
June 29, 2026
| Oscar Pandiello
The EU and China have set up a trade-monitoring mechanism and will intensify talks to address disputes over China’s growing trade surplus with the bloc, market access and export controls on critical inputs. EU... (more story)
Hunan Hualian goes to EU court over higher EU ceramics dumping tariff
June 29, 2026
| Yuqing Yang and Karoline Del Vecchio
Hunan Hualian China Industry has filed an appeal at the EU General Court, in a move to fight a higher duty to tackle dumping of ceramic tableware and kitchenware imported from China to the European Union.
US producer files for dumping, subsidy duties on Chinese choline salts
June 26, 2026
| Bradley Dress
A US producer this week filed for antidumping and antisubsidy duties on choline salts from China, requesting that the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission impose trade relief for the domestic industry.
Senate questions five USITC nominees, including two patent experts
June 25, 2026
| Nick Robertson
The Senate Finance Committee considered five nominees to be commissioners of the US International Trade Commission on Thursday, a bipartisan slate that would return the agency to full strength for the first ti... (more story)