Tag: Apparel
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Washington opened its second USMCA rapid response labor case in six days on Tuesday, targeting an automotive textile plant in Guanajuato, and ordered the Treasury to suspend liquidation on the factory’s shipments while Mexico decides whether to investigate WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative invoked the USMCA rapid response…
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Ratification completed on both sides sets October 20 entry into force for an agreement that gives every Indian tariff line duty-free access to New Zealand from day one NEW DELHI, September 23, 2026 India and New Zealand confirmed on September 21 that their bilateral free trade agreement will enter into force on October 20, after…
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Congress rides a two year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act on the government funding bill, but African exporters warn that short term fixes cannot restore the investment the program was built to attract WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 America’s flagship trade program with sub-Saharan Africa has been given another lease on life. President…
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New Delhi says the trade agreement with Washington is negotiated and ready, but it will stay unsigned until the United States grants tariff terms better than India’s rivals receive NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The long-promised bilateral trade agreement between the United States and India has arrived at a peculiar standstill: the deal is done,…
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USTR’s cotton-linked textile tariff-rate quota reaches its September 1 operational target, forcing importers, US yarn mills, and four Asian supplier nations to confront a new sourcing arithmetic WASHINGTON, September 1, 2026: The most closely watched date on the American textile trade calendar arrived Monday, as the Office of the United States Trade Representative’s long-promised tariff-rate…
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Beijing rejects Washington’s transshipment accusations as Mexico signals fresh duties on Chinese steel and textiles, deepening a trade rupture that is redrawing sourcing maps across North America. MEXICO CITY/BEIJING, August 24, 2026. China’s Ministry of Commerce has publicly rejected a White House report accusing Chinese exporters of routing goods through Mexico and other countries to…
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The Senate’s 90 to 6 vote to renew duty-free African trade through 2028 heads to the House, offering exporters from Lagos to Nairobi a reprieve even as new US forced labor tariffs cloud the value of the preference WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2026 – A rare piece of good news in a bruising year for global…
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Africa welcomes the US Senate’s two-year extension of duty-free trade, but industry leaders warn that Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs have hollowed out the program’s biggest benefits WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Relief is rippling across sub-Saharan Africa this week as governments and exporters digest the US Senate’s decision to extend the African Growth…
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Washington’s largest-ever expansion of the Uyghur forced labor blacklist takes effect, presuming goods from 43 more Chinese companies are barred from U.S. ports and putting importers of aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton, and tomato products on notice WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 The single largest expansion of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List since the…
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Brussels imposes definitive anti-dumping duties of up to 67.6 percent on Chinese polyamide yarns, moving to shield a 400 million euro European market and some 2,000 manufacturing jobs across five member states as the measure takes full effect this week. BRUSSELS, AUG. 2 – European textile mills began their first full week under a new…