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  • Mushroom Duty

    Washington proposes an 8.26 percent anti-dumping tariff on most fresh Canadian mushrooms, layering a second U.S. trade remedy in two months onto a sector that sends almost everything it grows across a single border. By the Canada Trade Desk | OTTAWA, July 15, 2026 The United States moved on Tuesday to place a new layer…

  • Refund Flood

    Treasury pays back $49.2 billion in invalidated tariffs in a single month, flipping last June’s celebrated surplus into a $120 billion deficit, with less than half the refund bill settled and a new generation of duties queued up to replace the old ones By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 14, 2026…

  • EU Tariff Wall

    Brussels warns that dialogue alone will not suffice as it readies unilateral safeguards, quotas and duties on Chinese imports ahead of an October deadline, hours after Beijing posts a record trade surplus International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 14, 2026 The European Union will impose unilateral trade defense measures on Chinese imports…

  • Lumber Squeeze

    Quebec rolls out a fresh loan program for softwood producers as Canadian mills brace for a U.S. duty ruling due within weeks, the Section 232 tariff bites, and Ottawa presses Washington for a truce that may hinge on quotas. By the Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk | Filed July 14, 2026 OTTAWA, July 14,…

  • Duty Dodge Ends

    Commerce finds Chinese paper plate makers routed production through Cambodia and Malaysia to evade duties of up to 515.40 percent, orders cash deposits reaching back to August 2025 and puts a fast-growing transshipment playbook on notice. By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 13, 2026 The United States has slammed shut one…

  • Zero-Duty Dawn

    India and the United Kingdom flip the switch Wednesday on the deepest tariff liberalisation either country has attempted in a generation, wiping out duties on 99 percent of Indian tariff lines, halving India’s 150 percent whisky tariff overnight and opening a quota lane for British cars at 10 percent International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting…

  • CUSMA Deadlock

    Ottawa regroups as U.S. sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and lumber stay put, a proposed forced-labour levy looms, and Beijing opens a fresh front on Canadian farm goods OTTAWA, July 13, 2026. Canada opened the second week of July with its trade file frozen in place. Almost two weeks after Washington formally declined to…

  • Jet Reprieve

    Trump orders 180 days of talks instead of immediate Section 232 tariffs on commercial aircraft, jet engines, and parts, sparing a sector with a $75 billion trade surplus while keeping duties in reserve. By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 10, 2026 President Donald Trump has stopped short of imposing new tariffs…

  • Seoul PVC Duty

    South Korea locks in five-year anti-dumping tariffs of up to 31.55 percent on PVC paste resin from Germany, France, Norway and Sweden, a ruling that pits two embattled chemical industries against each other and signals a harder line from Seoul on low-priced imports SEOUL, July 10, 2026 South Korea’s finance ministry moved Friday to impose…

  • 301 Tariff Row

    Ottawa tells Washington there is “no basis” for a proposed 10 percent forced labour duty as more than 1,500 submissions pile up ahead of a three-day Section 301 hearing. By the Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk | Filed July 10, 2026 OTTAWA, July 10, 2026. The Canadian government has told the Trump administration there…