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China imposes provisional anti-dumping deposits on pecans from the United States and Mexico, saddling non-responsive American exporters with a punishing 54.3 percent margin as collections begin at the border. BEIJING, August 11, 2026 Chinese Customs began collecting security deposits on imported pecans from the United States and Mexico on Tuesday, one day after the Ministry…
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Reported concession package would trade Canadian tariff relief on American vehicles, changes to dairy quota administration and the return of U.S. alcohol for cuts to metals duties, with nine days left on the Section 338 clock OTTAWA, Aug. 10, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canadian negotiators have put a defined package of concessions in front…
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Comments are due tonight in the USTR’s Section 301 investigation of German pharmaceutical pricing, a case that could put tariffs behind Washington’s demand that wealthy allies pay more for American medicines WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2026 The public comment period in one of the most closely watched trade investigations of the year closes tonight at 11:59…
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President Trump’s new Section 232 order imposes a 15 percent tariff and unprecedented price floors on polysilicon imports, and a fight over how and when to collect the duties is already reshaping the solar and semiconductor supply chains WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2026 The Trump administration spent the weekend wrestling with how to implement one of…
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China’s August 5 countermeasure package, spanning entity blacklistings, drone export curbs and a first-ever foreign trade national security probe into imported printers, is rippling far beyond Washington and into Asia-Pacific and European supply chains. BEIJING, August 10, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce unleashed a coordinated cluster of trade countermeasures on August 5, and five days…
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Brasilia rewrites the tariff fine print on hundreds of machines, chips and truck parts, betting that cheaper imported equipment can keep its reindustrialization drive on track while a 25 percent United States tariff squeezes its exporters from the outside. BRASILIA, August 10, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has pushed through one of the broadest single-week…
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Japan has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of 29.2 percent to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare and forceful use of trade remedies by a country long known for restraint. TOKYO, August 10, 2026 Japan’s steel trade defenses, dormant for most of the postwar era, are now firmly in…
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Customs and Border Protection tells the Court of International Trade it has returned 100 billion dollars of invalidated emergency-powers duties, but the hardest 11.4 billion dollars remains frozen behind a Justice Department appeal WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 United States Customs and Border Protection has paid out 100 billion dollars in refunds of tariffs collected under…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more steel, aluminum and copper derivative categories, from brass instruments and floor safes to tanker trailers, with comments due August 27 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 The United States Department of Commerce is proposing to extend Section 232 duties to 14 additional categories of steel, aluminum and copper derivative…
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Southern Africa’s customs union has scrapped its wheat import duty entirely, dropping the tariff from R153.70 per tonne to zero after world prices surged, and the region’s grain producers say the system that delivered the cut is broken. PRETORIA, August 9, 2026. The Southern African Customs Union has eliminated import duties on wheat and wheaten…