Tag: Agriculture

  • EU Beef Freeze

    Brussels reviews Brazil’s poultry and honey guarantees this week while beef documentation remains outstanding, straining a Mercosur partnership barely eight months old BRUSSELS, September 10, 2026 One week after the European Union shut its doors to Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the standoff between Brussels and Brasilia has entered a decisive new phase. European…

  • Veg Safeguard

    The Canadian International Trade Tribunal filed its report on frozen and canned vegetable imports with the Governor in Council on September 9, exactly on deadline. The determination is not yet public, and a 10 per cent provisional surtax plus refund exposure hangs on it. OTTAWA, September 10, 2026 While the Canada United States tariff conflict…

  • Wheat Duty Halt

    Russia suspends its floating export duties on wheat, barley, and corn through the end of 2026 as attacks on Black Sea ports strangle the world’s largest wheat export machine, with global grain markets repricing the risk MOSCOW, September 8, 2026 Russia is dismantling, at least temporarily, one of the most consequential taxes in global agriculture.…

  • Brazil Recasts

    Brasilia rewrites duty relief for 491 capital goods, zeroes tariffs on 34 IT and telecom products, and reshuffles its truck and farm machinery lists in a single September package, sharpening a year-long recalibration of the ex-tarifário regime that global equipment suppliers can no longer afford to ignore. BRASILIA, September 7, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade authorities…

  • EU Rice Duty Up

    Brussels raises the import tariff on husked rice by more than 40 percent under an automatic volume trigger, squeezing exporters from South Asia and South America and testing the margins of European rice millers BRUSSELS, September 8, 2026 The European Union has raised its import duty on husked rice from 30.00 euros to 42.50 euros…

  • Dairy Duty Hit

    Ottawa hits U.S. cheese with 25 per cent and milk powder, whey and casein with 50 per cent from Tuesday, turning the sector Washington most wants opened into the sector Canada has now closed hardest. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 – Of all the sectors on Canada’s…

  • Beef Quota Move

    Trump opens a 300,000 metric ton duty free window for imported lean beef, handing Brazil and Paraguay a windfall while American ranchers cry foul WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2026. President Donald Trump this week signed a proclamation that temporarily lifts the steep out-of-quota tariff on up to 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, the…

  • Deere Duty Bill

    The equipment maker told investors its tariff expense will climb toward 1 billion dollars next year even as customs refunds from invalidated duties fade, offering one of the clearest corporate readings yet of what the post-IEEPA tariff structure costs American manufacturers MOLINE, Ill., Aug. 26, 2026 Deere and Company expects its annual tariff bill to…

  • Grain Duty Cut

    Moscow trims wheat and corn export duties for early September and weighs a full moratorium through year-end as Black Sea attacks choke Russia’s grain gateway and prices sink below 100 dollars a tonne By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting MOSCOW, Aug. 31, 2026. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry announced on Friday, August 28, a fresh reduction…

  • Grain Duty Dip

    Russia cut its floating export duties on wheat and corn for the week of Sept. 2 to 8 and held barley at zero, a small mechanical adjustment that lands in the middle of the worst Black Sea logistics crisis Russian grain trade has faced. MOSCOW, Sept. 1. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry lowered the floating export duties…