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A quiet notice in the August 1 Canada Gazette opens the formal public comment window on a Canada-Türkiye free trade agreement, and buried inside it is a steel quota question Ottawa has not yet answered OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Global Affairs Canada published a notice in Part I of the Canada Gazette on Saturday, August…
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A holiday weekend burst of Special Import Measures Act activity at the border agency and the trade tribunal shows Canada’s trade remedy machinery running at full throttle, with Chinese and Vietnamese goods bearing most of the load OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 While Ottawa’s political attention stayed fixed on the August 19 deadline for new American…
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Ottawa imposes a 25 per cent provisional safeguard on imported wood cabinets and vanities, and importers have until August 5 before they even learn how to declare it OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Canadian importers of kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities returned from the Civic Holiday long weekend to a new 25 per cent surtax that…
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Ankara ends a 16-month suspension on bread wheat and cracked wheat exports, reopening a closely watched channel in the global grain trade under a controlled registration regime overseen by the Turkish Grain Board. ANKARA, July 30, 2026: Turkey has reopened the door to exports of bread wheat and cracked wheat, ending a suspension that had…
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A Geneva dispute panel finds Turkey’s 40 percent surtax on Chinese electric vehicles, related duties on hybrids and an import-licensing regime incompatible with core WTO obligations, handing Beijing a headline victory in case DS629 while an appeal, if Ankara files one, would vanish into a paralyzed Appellate Body. GENEVA, July 31, 2026. A World Trade…
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Two North American industrial unions representing 1.45 million workers have asked U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to abandon the Section 338 tariffs on Canada, arguing that Washington is aiming a protectionist weapon at the wrong country three weeks before the duties take effect PITTSBURGH and OTTAWA, August 2, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – The most…
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The Federal Communications Commission has blocked new imports of foreign made humanoid and quadruped robots along with power inverters, a national security move aimed squarely at China’s 85 percent grip on the world humanoid market WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026 – The United States this week banned the import of new foreign made humanoid robots, four…
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Britain locks in 48.5 percent anti-dumping duties on Chinese bicycles until 2029 and extends the net to Malaysia, Pakistan and a wide range of Chinese components, in the most assertive trade defence action of the UK’s post-Brexit era. LONDON, AUG. 2 – The United Kingdom has quietly assembled one of the most comprehensive trade defence…
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Canadian negotiators returned to Washington this week with 21 days left before the first Section 338 tariffs in American history take effect, and with Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly closing the door on the one piece of leverage his loudest provincial allies want him to use OTTAWA, July 31, 2026 Canada’s chief trade negotiators met…
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Canfor and West Fraser reported second quarter losses within a day of each other this week, an Alberta sawmill was condemned, and one producer disclosed the first hard numbers on how the new Section 338 tariffs will hit Canadian wood panels VANCOUVER, July 31, 2026 Two of Canada’s three largest lumber producers reported second quarter…