Poppy Carnell

UK steelmakers will soon face stiffer competition from foreign rivals for products such as tin mill and wire rod, while facing continued limits on selling in their competitors’ markets. Now that the EU and UK have separately concluded what should happen to their steel safeguards, which limit global imports and were due to expire this month, apparent differences in approach have potentially left some UK markets wide open.

Duration: 24:49 A central part of the EU’s ambitious privacy legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was put to the test recently, with a European court asked to rule on whether Belgium’s data-privacy regulator had the right to pursue an investigation into Facebook. The question went to the heart of a central mechanism of the GDPR: the so-called one-stop-shop. But the EU court’s ruling wasn’t as cut and dried as some may have hoped.

Seafood harvested by Chinese shipping fleet Dalian Ocean Fishing. Cotton products from China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp. Disposable gloves from Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation. Rough cut diamonds from Zimbabwe. These are among the imports US Customs and Border Protection has detained in recent years under the agency’s expanded authority in 2015 to block the import of goods suspected to have been made with forced labor.