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  • 100% Drug Duty

    Section 232 tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals took effect Friday for the industry’s largest importers, opening a high stakes test of whether a wall of duties can pull drug manufacturing back to American soil. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The steepest tariff ever applied to the American medicine cabinet is now being collected at United States ports…

  • Copper Crunch

    A mandatory smelt-and-cast reporting rule for copper imports takes effect Wednesday, the latest turn of the screw in a Section 232 metals regime that Washington has rebuilt tier by tier this year WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 American importers of copper wire and cable have until midnight tonight to get their data in order. Effective 12:01…

  • New 301 Regime

    The in-transit grace period has closed on Washington’s forced labor tariffs, locking in duties of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 economies as Congress stirs and the courts loom WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 The last escape hatch closed at one minute past midnight on Monday. As of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on July…

  • Brazil Hits WTO

    Brasilia formally requests dispute consultations in Geneva over Washington’s twin Section 301 tariff actions, opening a legal front even as both governments insist the door to negotiation remains open WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 Brazil has taken its escalating tariff fight with the United States to the World Trade Organization, filing a formal request for dispute…

  • Russia Oil Levy

    Moscow more than doubles its August sunflower oil export duty to RUB 7,748 per tonne, jolting Black Sea markets and global buyers. MOSCOW, July 28, 2026 – Russia’s floating export duty on sunflower oil will more than double in August, after the Russian Ministry of Agriculture set the levy at RUB 7,748 per tonne, roughly…

  • SACU Drill Duty

    South Africa’s new 20% tariff on rock drill parts takes effect across the customs union, testing localisation ambitions against mining cost pressures. PRETORIA, July 29, 2026 – Parts for rock drilling equipment entering the Southern African Customs Union now face a 20% ad valorem customs duty, after the South African Revenue Service gazetted an amendment…

  • India Coke Duty

    India locks in five-year anti-dumping duties on low ash metallurgical coke from six countries, deepening a public rift between its steel and finance ministries. NEW DELHI, July 28, 2026 – India has imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of low ash metallurgical coke from six countries for a period of five years, closing out a…

  • EU Duty Blitz

    Brussels hits Chinese benzyl alcohol and sodium benzoate with steep provisional anti-dumping duties, opening a new chemicals front in Europe’s widening trade-defence campaign. BRUSSELS, July 29, 2026 – Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 116.4 percent on two workhorse industrial chemicals from China took effect across the European Union today, the latest and most pointed…

  • Brazil Steel Up

    GECEX Resolution 941 lifts import duties on seven wire, fencing and construction steel lines to a flat 25 percent for twelve months BRASILIA, July 28, 2026 – Brazil has tightened the screws on steel imports once again. On 23 July the Executive Management Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber, known as GECEX/Camex, adopted Resolution No.…

  • Small Firms Hit

    New Brunswick estimates the August 19 tariffs will touch just 0.8 per cent of its exports to the United States. An economist and a small business group warn that the aggregate number conceals what happens to the mill towns and family firms where that 0.8 per cent is concentrated. By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade…