A new Netherlands measure, taking effect on 22 September 2026, prohibits the import, purchase and sale of goods originating in unlawful Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, together with services that facilitate that trade. It also prohibits brokering and circumvention of the ban.
Switzerland and China have finished negotiating a revised free trade agreement that promises near-total duty-free access. Here is what has actually changed today, and what compliance teams still need to watch before it does.
Rotterdam handled 397 million tonnes of freight in 2024, more than any other port in the European Union and equal to 11.8% of all freight tonnage moved through EU ports that year, according to Eurostat. That is more than Antwerp-Bruges (244 million tonnes) and Hamburg (97 million tonnes) combined.
A new WCO study finds that recycled and remanufactured goods often fall through the gaps in preferential trade rules built for new products. Here is what it means for trade compliance teams.
£6.4 million. That is what Airbus Operations Limited has paid HMRC for breaches of UK strategic export controls.
For years, China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) appeared to validate one of the biggest geopolitical narratives in international trade: the steady erosion of dollar dominance.
When the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement entered into force on 1 August 2020, it was framed as an ambitious next-generation trade deal between the European Union and one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies.
After nearly two decades of negotiation, the European Union and India have reached a political conclusion on a landmark comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described it as the “mother of all trade deals” – and the scale of what has been agreed justifies that description. But the FTA itself is only one part of a much larger package of agreements.
The 2026 Iran war began 28 February when the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz and attacking Gulf shipping, energy infrastructure and US-allied Arab states.