Tag: Automotive
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India has imposed a one-year minimum import price on clear float glass, restricting shipments priced below Rs 34,000 per tonne while a subsidy investigation into Malaysian and Indonesian producers runs its course. NEW DELHI, August 24, 2026. India has erected a price floor beneath one of the construction and automotive sectors’ most fundamental inputs. In…
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Mexico City presses Washington to shrink the 25 percent Section 232 automotive tariff as the USMCA review heads toward a make or break fourth round in September, with rules of origin, steel, and the future of North American carmaking on the table WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2026 – Mexico is mounting its most determined push yet…
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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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Mexico presses Washington to slash Section 232 auto tariffs and rewrite content rules as the USMCA review heads toward a decisive fourth round WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2026 – Mexico is mounting its most aggressive push yet to dismantle the tariff wall that the United States has built around the North American auto industry, pressing the…
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Negotiators are working toward cutting the American tariff on Canadian-built vehicles from 25 per cent to 15 per cent, but the two sides remain split on whose content gets deducted. The difference between American-only and North American content is worth billions, and Brampton is the cautionary example. OTTAWA, August 19, 2026 The headline number in…
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Dominic LeBlanc’s third negotiating round in three weeks leaves Canada eight days to head off an unprecedented 50 per cent tariff on nearly US$20 billion of exports, and for the first time CUSMA compliance offers no shelter By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Canada’s minister responsible for Canada-United States trade,…
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Reported concession package would trade Canadian tariff relief on American vehicles, changes to dairy quota administration and the return of U.S. alcohol for cuts to metals duties, with nine days left on the Section 338 clock OTTAWA, Aug. 10, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canadian negotiators have put a defined package of concessions in front…
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Ottawa’s three part concession package on alcohol, dairy quota allocation and auto counter tariffs runs into a constitutional wall as Ontario attaches conditions and British Columbia refuses outright OTTAWA, August 8, 2026. The Canadian government has put a full concession package on the table in Washington in an effort to head off 50 per cent…
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Six months into the EU-China minimum price experiment for electric vehicles, only one car has crossed the finish line, and the truce now faces its sternest examination yet from compliance haggling, surging Chinese market share, and a looming fight over plug-in hybrids. BRUSSELS, August 4, 2026 – The most ambitious trade truce Brussels has attempted…
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American and Mexican negotiators open three days of talks in Mexico City with autos, steel, and Chinese transshipment on the table, and the future of North American free trade increasingly negotiated one year at a time MEXICO CITY, July 21, 2026. United States and Mexican negotiating teams convened in the Mexican capital on Tuesday for…