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In this article, the European Union is adding tariffs upon steel pipes imported from China. The EU believes that these tariffs will protect their market from under priced steel pipes. Chinese officials prepared a case to the WTO about the situation.

This article talks about how the US has imposed tariffs on importers of Chinese solar panels. The Chinese panels were being sold in the World market at a very low price due to subsidies that the Chinese government had been giving to solar panel manufacturers which resulted in the low selling price. Due to this, demand was high in the US for these panels as opposed to domestically made panels, therefore the aim of the tariffs was to increase the price of the panels so that people in the US would buy locally made panels boosting the local solar industry as opposed to the Chinese one.

This article discusses the United States and Japan's recent negotiations for better free-trade, though the article states that it has been very underwhelming. Japan has refused to cut much in the way of tariffs. In response, the United States has refused to cut tariffs on imported car parts.

The proposed increase in tariff on wind energy in Tamil Nadu is too high for the industry standard.

This article is about a new set of trade agreements that could go into effect between the European Union and Canada. Notably, they plan to get rid of almost all tariffs and open all markets for service. It faces opposition from Germany. A study estimates a combined gain of 20 billion euros coming from these new agreements.

J oseph M. Matalon, chair-man of the Private Sector Working Group on Tax Reform (PSWG), is calling for the imposition of tariffs on primary goods and lower taxations on Jamaicans, saying that the change would serve to fuel economic growth.

The U.S has placed tarriffs on sugar imports. The driving force behind this is that they want to "raise U.S. sugar market prices to a point where normally uncompetitive sugar farms will be able to compete with foreign producers." However, there is also a downside to these tarriffs as the high sugar prices due to tariffs cost the American economy $1.9 billion of deadweight loss a year.

In this article, Taiwan is wanting to be part of some trade blocs that will allow for their country's exporters to experience less tariffs and open markets for their domestic markets. However, China is not allowing them to.