A narrowly scoped exclusion window targets specific photovoltaic inputs, reflecting the tension between tariff pressure and clean-energy deployment goals.
Author Archives: PolicyTrader
Posted inSustainability
RED III Annex IX Review Opens: Intermediate Crops Face Tightened Sustainability Criteria
The review reopens the eligible-feedstock list, with intermediate and sequential crops in focus; obligated parties face possible recalibration of advanced-biofuel eligibility.
Posted inThink Tank News
Cato: Section 122 is Trump’s illegal stopgap
The Trump administration’s invocation of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a 10 percent global tariff is legally and economically flawed, because a goods trade deficit does not constitute a balance-of-payments deficit as the statute intended.
Posted inEast Asia, SEA and Regions
METI Tightens Foreign Exchange Act Screening for Dual-Use HS 8542 Exports
Japan refines export control screening for integrated circuits, adding diligence steps for transactions with end-use sensitivities.
Posted inAnalysis
Carbon Border Adjustment and the Quiet Reshaping of Aluminium Trade Flows
Even in its reporting-only phase, the EU carbon border mechanism is already redirecting which tonnes go where ahead of the definitive regime.
Posted inThink Tank News
Cato: Jones Act data reveals universe of blocked trade
Voyage-level data from the Trump administration’s Jones Act waiver demonstrates that the 1920 law has been suppressing intra-US trade by preventing domestic cargo movements that the market clearly wanted to make.
Posted inMalaysia, SEA and Regions
Malaysia Initiates AD Sunset Review on Cold-Rolled Stainless (HS 7219)
The investigating authority opens a sunset review to determine whether expiry of antidumping duties would lead to recurrence of injury.
Posted inTrade Policy
WTO Appellate Body Impasse Pushes Members Toward MPIA Interim Arbitration
As unappealable panel reports accumulate, more members are weighing accession to the interim arbitration arrangement to preserve binding review.
Posted inThink Tank News
PIIE: A positive trade policy for US agriculture
US farmers have suffered from the shift away from free trade agreements and from the volatility caused by the Trump administrations’ tariff-driven trade wars.
Posted inAmericas, SEA and Regions
USMCA Rapid Response Petition Filed at Third Auto Parts Facility in Coahuila
A new labour rapid-response matter extends a pattern in the auto parts sector, with remediation timelines now the operative question.