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Commerce and the International Trade Commission published more than fifteen antidumping, countervailing duty and Section 337 actions in three days, touching Chinese aluminum extrusions, Malaysian mattresses, Spanish olives, Indian fluoropolymers and Turkish stainless pipe. The traditional trade remedy system is running at full capacity beneath the headline tariffs. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2026 While Washington’s attention…
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A Republican senator close to the White House says Homeland Security is not doing enough to catch tariff evaders, as transshipment through third countries strains a customs agency asked to police the highest average duty rates in nearly a century. The enforcement gap is now a bipartisan talking point. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2026 The most…
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More than $121 billion in claims and roughly $100 billion paid out, yet the small importers who absorbed the cost of the invalidated IEEPA tariffs say the money is landing everywhere except with them. A refund program built for importers of record is now colliding with class actions, congressional bills and the midterm campaign. WASHINGTON,…
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Tokyo enacts provisional duties of 29.2 to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare deployment of trade remedies by the world’s third largest steel producer and the latest sign that Asia’s long tolerance of cheap steel imports is running out. TOKYO, August 13, 2026. Japanese customs officers began collecting…
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Ottawa has revived a proposal to cap Canadian steel and aluminum shipments to the United States in exchange for relief from Section 232 duties, a managed-trade bargain that would trade the principle of open access for the predictability producers say they can no longer find. OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2026 Canadian negotiators have put export quotas…
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On August 12, 2026, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced that Defense Maritime Solutions (DMS) will invest more than $30 million to expand its operations in Chesapeake, Virginia. The project will add 32 jobs. On its face, that’s a modest, local economic-development story, the kind of announcement that runs in a regional business paper and is…
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Fresh government trade data released Monday show the average U.S. tariff burden fell to 7.1 percent in June, even as the administration finished rebuilding its global tariff wall on a new legal foundation that courts are already testing. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 The most detailed picture yet of America’s post Supreme Court tariff landscape emerged…
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The public comment window closed Monday in the U.S. Trade Representative’s Section 301 investigation into Germany’s pharmaceutical pricing, hardening battle lines in a novel trade fight that could put tariffs on one of the world’s most sensitive industries. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 A first of its kind American trade investigation into how a close ally…
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Caught between a new Section 301 forced-labour tariff already raising costs on 70 percent of its US-bound exports and a looming 100 percent penalty tied to Russian oil, New Delhi is betting that patience, diversification and an unsigned trade deal can carry it through the tightest trade squeeze it has faced in years. NEW DELHI,…
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POSCO formally contests Japan’s first major anti-dumping duties on Korean steel, opening a high-stakes trade confrontation between two US allies as a far larger probe into hot-rolled and cold-rolled products looms in the background. SEOUL, Aug. 11, 2026 — South Korea’s flagship steelmaker POSCO has formally challenged the provisional anti-dumping duties Japan imposed last week…