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  • China Truce Bid

    Beijing races to lock in a 30 billion dollar reciprocal tariff cut with Washington before Xi Jinping travels to the United States, even as it blacklists European firms and fortifies its own farm sector. BEIJING, July 26, 2026 China spent the past week practicing a brand of tariff diplomacy that few governments would attempt on…

  • Delhi Deal Push

    India vows to keep negotiating with Washington after a new 10 percent American tariff, wagering that its fresh trade pacts with the United Kingdom and the European Union give it the leverage to wait for balanced terms. NEW DELHI, July 26, 2026: India will keep negotiating with the United States toward a bilateral trade agreement…

  • Lula’s WTO Bet

    Brazil answers Washington’s 25 percent Section 301 tariff with legal patience instead of counter-tariffs, staking its export economy on a Geneva dispute system the United States itself has spent years hobbling. BRASILIA, July 26, 2026 Brazil spent this weekend doing something almost no major economy has managed in the current round of tariff wars: holding…

  • EU Sanction Jab

    The Council’s 21st Russia sanctions package puts an unprecedented cohort of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong firms on the EU blacklist, jolting a commercial relationship already frayed by duties on electric cars, tyres, steel and even duck meat. BRUSSELS, July 26, 2026. The Council of the European Union adopted its 21st package of restrictive measures…

  • Beijing Hits EU

    China bans dual-use exports to Rheinmetall and 13 other European entities in a swift, list-for-list reprisal against the EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package, pulling rare earths, photonics and defence supply chains deeper into a widening trade confrontation. BEIJING, July 26, 2026. Two days after China’s Ministry of Commerce placed 14 European Union entities on its…

  • Auto Job Fight

    Unifor calls the moment “the fight of our lives” as U.S. tariffs, a stalled CUSMA and Chinese electric vehicles converge on a Canadian auto sector already down thousands of jobs. WINDSOR, Ont., July 27, 2026. Canada’s auto sector has become the sharpest edge of the country’s trade conflict with the United States, and the union…

  • Labour Tariff

    Washington’s new 10 per cent Section 301 duty over forced-labour enforcement takes effect on Canadian goods, but a CUSMA carve-out spares most exports even as Ottawa insists there is no basis for the measure. OTTAWA, July 27, 2026. A new United States tariff aimed at forced labour in global supply chains is now in force…

  • Trade Standoff

    Ottawa holds its fire as Washington revives a nearly century-old trade statute, setting an August 19 deadline for a 50 per cent tariff on close to C$28 billion in Canadian exports. OTTAWA, July 27, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to fire back at the United States before a threatened 50 per cent tariff…

  • Dairy Duel

    Trump’s 50 percent tariffs land Canadian milk, whey and lactose on Washington’s hit list and reopen a decades-old fight over supply management, but Ottawa says the market will not open further COATICOOK, Quebec, July 24, 2026 On a dairy farm ten kilometres from the American border, Angus MacKinnon has been expecting this fight for a…

  • Labour Levy

    A new 10 percent American duty framed as a crackdown on forced labour catches Canada in a net cast over more than sixty nations, and Ottawa says there is no basis for it OTTAWA, July 24, 2026 The Trump administration has opened a new front in its trade offensive against Canada, imposing a 10 percent…