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Carney and the premiers project a united front as Washington’s 50 percent tariffs bear down on an August 19 deadline, with retaliation deliberately held in reserve CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged from a four-hour meeting with Canada’s premiers on the shores of Prince Edward Island this week with…
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With a 50 percent tariff cliff four weeks away and a fresh forced-labour duty already in force, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerges from a united First Ministers meeting in Charlottetown refusing to rule out retaliation while betting that intensified negotiation, not counterpunches, offers Canada its best path. CHARLOTTETOWN, July 25, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney…
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Washington converts a stalled Section 301 forced-labour probe into hard tariffs on 60 economies, hitting Canada with a 10 percent charge that Ottawa disputes even as continental-compliant goods are spared and a broader 50 percent threat looms behind it. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States has turned a long-running forced-labour investigation into a fresh…
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Washington reaches back nearly a century to a dormant Depression-era statute, placing punitive 50 percent duties on roughly 20 billion dollars of Canadian exports, from wine to cement to plywood, with an August 19 effective date and no shelter for goods that qualify under the continental trade pact. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States…
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Five days into a 25 percent US tariff, and with a second duty now stacked on top, President Lula is resisting pressure to strike back while his ministers assemble a menu of retaliation options. Peacock Tariff Consulting | US Trade Desk | July 27, 2026 WASHINGTON, July 27. Brazil enters the new week absorbing not…
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One year to the day after the handshake in Scotland, a new 10 percent US tariff on European goods and a nearly one billion dollar fine on Google have pushed the transatlantic trade truce to its most fragile point yet. Peacock Tariff Consulting | US Trade Desk | July 27, 2026 WASHINGTON, July 27. The…
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Beijing demands Washington fully remove its new forced labor tariffs, invoking a 20 percent cap it says was promised in bilateral talks, yet stops short of retaliation with a leaders’ summit on the horizon. Peacock Tariff Consulting | US Trade Desk | July 27, 2026 WASHINGTON, July 27. China called on the United States on…
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Two American tariff actions in a single week have pushed duties on many Brazilian goods to 37.5 percent, as Brasilia weighs its Reciprocity Law, a WTO challenge and the limits of strategic patience. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 No major American trading partner absorbed a harder blow…
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The forced labor tariffs were the opening act, not the finale. With an overcapacity probe underway, sectoral security investigations maturing and new legal tools being tested, Washington’s rebuilt tariff machine has a full pipeline for the months ahead. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 The tariff week that…
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Importers have until 12:01 a.m. Tuesday to enter goods that were already on the water when the new forced labor tariffs took effect, and the fine print of the 431-page action is testing customs teams like nothing since the first China tariff waves. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26,…