Competitive advantage in tariffs remains final hurdle in US-India trade talks
July 03, 2026
| Freny Patel
India will not finalize a US trade deal until Washington identifies a legally sustainable mechanism to grant Indian exports preferential market access over Asian competitors, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said.
US trade court remands Commerce's Indian brass rod order
July 02, 2026
| Bradley Dress
The US Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department’s 2024 final affirmative antidumping determination on brass rod from India, finding the agency failed to properly address semi-finished good... (more story)
US trade court sides with Commerce on double-remedy adjustment denial
July 02, 2026
| Zack Budryk
The US Court of International Trade has sustained the Commerce Department’s denial of a double-remedies adjustment in a June 16 ruling made public Wednesday.
Chinese alkaline batteries hit with latest EU trade investigation
July 02, 2026
| Karoline Del Vecchio
The European Commission Thursday said that it opened another probe into imports from China, this time, into primary cells and batteries of alkaline manganese dioxide, to find out whether they are entering the ... (more story)
EU, China unlikely to end up in trade war soon, key EU lawmaker says
July 02, 2026
| Cynthia Kroet and Oscar Pandiello
The EU and China are unlikely to end up in a trade war soon, because of Beijing's dependency on the European market, Bernd Lange, the chair of the European Parliament's trade committee, told MLex. His comments... (more story)
Trade-defense tools should only be to fill enforcement gaps, key EU lawmaker says
July 02, 2026
| Oscar Pandiello and Cynthia Kroet
EU trade-defense tools should be created only where there is a clear enforcement gap, not as a shortcut to shield industries from structural problems, European Parliament trade committee chair Bernd Lange told... (more story)
US declines to renew trade pact with Mexico, Canada
July 01, 2026
| Bradley Dress
The Trump administration on Wednesday declined to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, rebuffing the trade pact governing $2 trillion in annual trading between the North American partners and setti... (more story)
US DOJ, FTC fertilizer probes looking at exports, USDA official says
July 01, 2026
| Chris May
Fertilizer companies’ potential collusion over exports to the US is on the radar of federal antitrust enforcers who are investigating the industry, a senior US Department of Agriculture official said Wednesday.