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  • Sugar Duty Cut

    India throws open a rare duty-free window for 1 million tonnes of raw sugar imports, suspending a 100 percent tariff wall to tame record domestic prices before the festival season. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India, the world’s largest consumer of sugar and one of its most protected sugar markets, has cracked open its tariff…

  • UK Lift Duties

    Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 71.74 percent on Chinese boom lifts take effect as the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority moves at record pace to shield domestic producer Niftylift. LONDON, August 24, 2026. The United Kingdom has imposed a provisional anti-dumping measure on imports of boom lifts from China, with duty rates ranging from 16.25…

  • Refund Red Ink

    Tariff refunds ordered after the Supreme Court’s IEEPA ruling have exceeded new tariff collections every month since May, new data show, wiping out net customs revenue and complicating the administration’s fiscal claims WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The federal government is now paying out more in tariff refunds than it collects in tariffs, a reversal without…

  • Cost Of No Deal

    Roughly 90,000 jobs, two to three tenths of a point off growth, and an average tariff that jumped almost two points overnight. What the numbers say about the August rupture, why British Columbia and Ontario absorb the worst of it, and what a Canadian exporter should do in the next 30 days. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24,…

  • Brazil Reset

    An 80-minute phone call between Presidents Lula and Trump revives stalled negotiations over the 25 percent Section 301 tariff and the 12.5 percent forced-labor duty squeezing Brazilian exports to the United States WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The United States and Brazil agreed on Friday to restart negotiations over the tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods…

  • Metal Net Grows

    Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…

  • Saudi AD Probe

    Saudi Arabia’s trade authority has opened its second anti-dumping investigation of the year, targeting duplex paperboard from India and China as the Kingdom moves to shield a packaging industry it has spent a decade building under Vision 2030. RIYADH, Aug. 19: Saudi Arabia has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of multi-ply duplex paperboard originating…

  • Metals Deal Off

    The package that died in Washington would have halved steel and aluminum duties, cut auto tariffs to 15 per cent and opened formal CUSMA talks. What Canadian producers lost, and what they keep HAMILTON, Ontario, August 22, 2026 The tariffs that made headlines on Saturday morning were not the ones that matter most to Canadian…

  • Section 338

    A dormant 1930 retaliation clause becomes live law against Canada, and CUSMA origin offers no shelter. What the three proclamations actually say, and what they mean for compliance OTTAWA AND WASHINGTON, August 22, 2026 The tariff that took effect against Canadian goods at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday is not remarkable for its rate.…

  • PET Film Probe

    India’s trade remedies authority has opened an anti-dumping investigation into thick polyester film from China, Singapore, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s second probe into PET film imports in less than a year and a fresh signal of New Delhi’s hardening line on low priced imports. NEW DELHI, Aug. 19. India’s Directorate General…