International Trade weekly highlights—21 August 2025
This week’s edition of International Trade weekly highlights includes: the UK–US framework agreement on tariffs, China initiating World Trade Organization consultations over Canadian steel and aluminium import measures, the Trade Remedies Authority recommending a two-year extension of UK steel safeguard measures to 2026, the EU renewing countervailing duties on polyethylene terephthalate imports from India, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs suspending additional EU border checks ahead of new Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement, a Notice of initiation on terephthalic acid being published in Official Journal and a weekly roundup of HMRC import, export and customs guidance.