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  • Pharma Cliff

    Six days before 100 percent tariffs hit patented medicines, three of the world’s biggest drugmakers still have no onshoring deal, generic makers have a new 200 percent deadline of their own, and the US drug supply chain is bracing for the most expensive week in its history WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 The most consequential tariff…

  • World Pushback

    From Beijing to Brasilia, trading partners answer Washington’s forced labor tariffs with a mix of fury, lawsuits and studied restraint, and the choices they make in the coming weeks will determine whether a new trade war ignites WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 Within 24 hours of the United States switching on new tariffs against 60 trading…

  • Tariff Wall 2.0

    A forced labor case gives the White House its most durable tariff wall yet, as new duties on 60 economies replace an expired stopgap and reset the cost of nearly every product entering the United States WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 The United States began collecting a sweeping new round of import tariffs on Friday, imposing…

  • USMCA Round 3

    American and Mexican negotiators open three days of talks in Mexico City with autos, steel, and Chinese transshipment on the table, and the future of North American free trade increasingly negotiated one year at a time MEXICO CITY, July 21, 2026. United States and Mexican negotiating teams convened in the Mexican capital on Tuesday for…

  • Tariff Handoff

    The 10 percent global surcharge that rescued the administration’s tariff agenda after the Supreme Court’s IEEPA ruling dies by statute on Friday, and the Section 301 regime built to replace it is arriving with no cap and no clock WASHINGTON, July 21, 2026. The most consequential deadline in American trade policy since February arrives at…

  • CETA Kicks In

    One week into the India-UK trade agreement, exporters on both sides are navigating new rules of origin to claim the deepest tariff cuts India has ever granted a Western partner International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 NEW DELHI, July 21, 2026: The largest trade agreement either country has concluded in years…

  • EU Parcel Levy

    Three weeks into the 3 euro duty on small parcels, Brussels is squeezing the Shein and Temu pipeline while racing an October deadline to rebalance the wider China trade relationship International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: The most consequential customs change Europe has made in a generation…

  • Steel Wall Up

    Three weeks into the EU’s 50 percent out-of-quota steel duty, exporters from Tokyo to Seoul are counting the cost, importers are racing quota clocks, and Beijing is warning of a response International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: Three weeks after the European Union switched on the most…

  • WTO Reform Push

    With the e-commerce duty moratorium dead and ministers still smarting from Yaounde, members used this week’s General Council to argue over how, and how fast, to rebuild the trading system’s rules International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 GENEVA, July 21, 2026: The World Trade Organization’s General Council convened in Geneva this…

  • Brazil Duty Cut

    Brasilia zeroes tariffs on six strategic imports and multiplies a medical device quota, using a Mercosur supply mechanism to cool input costs while the world’s tariff walls rise International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRASILIA, July 21, 2026: Brazil has moved in the opposite direction of much of the trading world…