Tag: Agriculture
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White House opens a 300,000 tonne duty-free window on ground beef as cattle numbers hit a 56-year low, handing importers a narrow and legally unusual opening WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will waive out-of-quota tariffs on as much as 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef…
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Pretoria opens a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on European frozen bone-in chicken days before they lapse, with a claimed German dumping margin of 425.64 percent and the whole Southern African Customs Union market at stake JOHANNESBURG, 20 August 2026 South Africa’s trade regulator has launched a sunset review of anti-dumping duties on frozen bone-in…
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Washington shelved a 50 per cent tariff on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods with less than two hours to spare, but no legal text has been published and the reprieve expires Saturday OTTAWA, August 20, 2026 The first tariff in nearly a century imposed under Section 338 of the United States Tariff Act of…
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South Africa races the clock with a sunset review of decade-old anti-dumping duties on European bone-in chicken, days before the tariffs were set to lapse JOHANNESBURG, August 19, 2026 South Africa’s trade regulator has launched a last-minute sunset review of the anti-dumping duties that have shielded the Southern African Customs Union’s poultry industry from European…
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Russia will more than double its wheat export levy for the week of August 19 to 25 even as strikes on Novorossiysk have taken most of the country’s Black Sea loading capacity offline, leaving exporters squeezed between a rising fiscal charge and a physical inability to ship. MOSCOW, August 18, 2026 Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture…
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Beijing’s provisional anti-dumping duties on American and Mexican pecans have upended one of the fastest-growing corners of the global nut trade, pushing total charges on US shipments to roughly 86 percent and dragging Mexico’s booming orchard economy into the crossfire of great-power commerce. By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting BEIJING, August 17, 2026 China…
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China’s provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 54.3 percent on American pecans and up to 51.6 percent on Mexican pecans turn a niche nut trade into the newest, and most revealing, front in the widening tariff standoff between Beijing and Mexico City. BEIJING, August 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce has fired the latest shot…
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Mexico’s Economy Secretariat is scrambling to reverse China’s provisional anti-dumping duties on pecans before they harden into definitive measures, with a 10-day response window already running. MEXICO CITY, August 14, 2026. Mexico’s federal government has opened a determined diplomatic and procedural counteroffensive against China this week, working to prevent Beijing’s newly imposed provisional anti-dumping duties…
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Beijing orders provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 54.3 percent on American pecans and up to 51.6 percent on Mexican shipments, a preliminary ruling that redraws the map of the global nut trade and lands just ahead of an expected Xi-Trump summit. By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | peacocktariffconsulting.com BEIJING, August 13, 2026 –…
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Quebec’s premier convenes an emergency meeting on agriculture as Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, along with thousands of small exporters from hockey stick makers to cabinet shops, braces for Wednesday’s 50 percent American tariff MONTREAL, August 16, 2026 The anxiety radiating through Canada’s farm belt and factory floors this weekend is most acute in Quebec, where…