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  • Tariff Backlash

    Allies from Tokyo to Canberra are protesting Washington’s new forced labor tariffs on 60 economies, calling the human rights rationale a pretext for rebuilding the duties American courts struck down, as the first full week under the new regime begins. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2026 The United States began its first full business week under a…

  • China Cap Claim

    Beijing says Washington privately pledged to hold new replacement tariffs on Chinese goods at 20 percent, revealing the hidden ceiling in a fragile trade truce and handing importers a rare glimpse of where US-China tariff policy may settle. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2026 China has publicly disclosed what it says is a private American commitment at…

  • Smelter Carrot

    New Section 232 proclamation halves aluminum tariffs for companies that build American smelters, testing whether incentives can succeed where duties alone have not WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 President Trump signed a proclamation on Monday that fundamentally reworks the incentive structure behind America’s aluminum tariffs, offering companies that invest in building, expanding, or refurbishing domestic smelters…

  • Brazil Duty Day

    Sweeping 25 percent Section 301 tariffs on Brazilian goods take effect as Brasilia vows retaliation and a WTO challenge WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 A 25 percent tariff on most goods imported from Brazil took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time this morning, opening a new and volatile chapter in the trade relationship between the United…

  • A Paperwork Cliff: Why Canadian Truck Dealers Say They Can’t Buy New U.S. Models – and Why a Bureaucratic Mismatch Could Ripple Through the Whole Economy

    A warning from Parliament Hill When the head of the Canadian Truck Dealers Association stepped up to a microphone on Parliament Hill on May 21, 2026, the message was not the kind that usually draws crowds. There was no factory closure to announce, no jobs lost overnight, no dramatic tariff to denounce. Instead, Kevin Disher…

  • Geneva Grilling

    India closes its first WTO trade policy review in five years defending high tariffs and development carve-outs, as 68 members press New Delhi on predictability, licensing and localization amid its FTA blitz. GENEVA, July 27, 2026, and the file on India’s trade regime is now formally closed, at least until the next quinquennial reckoning. India…

  • Beef Wall Looms

    Brazil has burned through four fifths of its 2026 beef allowance in China, and once the last tonnes clear customs a 55 percent surcharge will lift total duties to roughly 67 percent, a level the industry says will stop the world’s biggest beef trade lane cold. SAO PAULO, July 27, 2026: Brazil’s beef industry is…

  • Russia Crop Tax

    Moscow revives its corn export duty and more than doubles the levy on sunflower oil in a July 24 package that reaches buyers from Cairo and Istanbul to New Delhi and Beijing. MOSCOW, July 27, 2026. Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture closed out last week with a late Friday package of higher agricultural export taxes, reviving…

  • Resorcinol Redo

    India’s trade remedies agency pushed its revived resorcinol dumping case forward with twin procedural orders on July 25, keeping sole domestic producer Atul Ltd’s second bid in two years for renewed duties on Chinese and Japanese imports firmly on track. NEW DELHI, July 27, 2026: India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies moved its freshly revived…

  • Dumping Finding

    Japan’s trade and finance ministries have preliminarily concluded that hot-dipped galvanized steel from China and South Korea was dumped at prices far below home-market levels, and they have extended the probe to December 12 while weighing duties. TOKYO, July 27, 2026: Japan moved a decisive step closer to imposing anti-dumping duties on one of the…