Incase Design Corp. is challenging U.S. import duty levels on carrying cases for consumer electronics including cameras and mobile phones.

The Trump administration’s ban on exports of some personal protective equipment to fight the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. will take effect Friday and will be in place for four months.

The coronavirus pandemic could cause a deeper collapse of international trade flows than at any point in the postwar era, the World Trade Organization said.

The European Union imposed tariffs as high as 18.9% on flat-rolled stainless steel from China, Taiwan and Indonesia in a bid to curb competition for EU-based producers including Outokumpu Oyj.

European Union governments agreed to expand the bloc’s trade-sanctions power, signaling that concerns about the U.S. challenge to the global commercial order run deeper than the coronavirus pandemic.

A trio of U.S. chemicals producers lost their challenge to U.S. anti-subsidy duty levels on imports of water treatment chemicals from China, the U.S. Court of International Trade said.