Trade coverage

The Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry is proposing a mandatory Philippine Standard certification scheme for wrought aluminum and aluminum alloy products, covering both local and foreign manufacturers. The Philippines imports over 90% of its aluminum consumption, with annual import value over $600 million.

China's Ministry of Commerce issued a preliminary ruling on Monday in its anti-dumping probe into pecan imports from Mexico and the United States, finding that the products were dumped in the Chinese market and caused material injury to domestic producers. The ministry imposed provisional anti-dumping measures, with dumping margins of 17.8% to 51.6% for Mexican companies and 54.3% for all U.S. firms (no U.S. companies participated in the probe). The investigation, which began Sept. 25, 2025, will continue before a final ruling.

Ukraine will lose more than half of its agricultural exports due to port downtime, TASS calculated from Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy data, projecting year-end losses of about $11.5 billion for Kyiv. With continued port downtime, no more than half of the 2026-2027 harvest volume can be moved by land or through Romanian ports.

China-Russia trade turnover in January-July rose 26.3% to $159.24 billion, according to China'sAdministration of Customs.

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) — China's foreign trade in yuan-denominated terms grew 19.2 percent year on year in July, according to data released Friday by the General Administration of Customs.

Brazil's Vice President Geraldo Alckmin said Monday that Brazil's exports to the European Union rose about 4 percent in the first 60 days since the Mercosur-EU free trade agreement took effect, speaking at the 25th Brazilian Agribusiness Congress.

Trade between Thailand and its free trade agreement partners rose 21.8 percent year on year to 243.67 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of 2026, accounting for 57.3 percent of total trade, according to official data released Monday by Thailand's Ministry of Commerce. Exports to the 18 FTA partners gained 12.6 percent to 105.49 billion dollars, while imports climbed 30 percent to 138.18 billion dollars, with China remaining Thailand's largest FTA trading partner, followed by Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and India.

A collapse has begun at Ukrainian land border checkpoints due to seaport downtime, with 6,835 vehicles accumulating at the border with Poland, according to TASS review of data from the official electronic system for freight carriers and buses.