Tag: Capital Goods

  • Deficit Widens

    August goods and services gap jumps 13.7 percent to $105.6 billion as record imports of semiconductors and capital equipment outrun the tariff wall, forcing a hard question about what the duties are actually buying WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The American trade deficit widened to $105.6 billion in August, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the…

  • Brazil Duty Mix

    Brasilia rewrites its tariff schedule on two fronts at once: a midnight deadline decides whether the 20 percent tax on small e-commerce parcels returns, while Gecex retools duties on hundreds of capital goods and opens a new anti-dumping front against China BRASILIA, September 8, 2026 Brazil’s trade policy reached an unusually consequential crossroads this week,…

  • 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…

  • Brazil Duty Cut

    Brasilia’s foreign trade chamber has rolled out a fresh package of import duty relief covering nearly 500 capital goods, dozens of IT and telecom products, and a reworked exemption list for trucks, trailers, and farm machinery, extending a year of rapid-fire tariff engineering aimed at cutting the cost of industrial modernization. BRASILIA, September 4, 2026…

  • Brazil Cuts Tax

    Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has eliminated import duties on dozens of technology products and rewritten tariff relief for hundreds of capital goods, auto parts and heavy vehicles, a package that takes effect August 13 as the country works to lower investment costs while absorbing a new 25 percent American tariff on its exports. BRASILIA, August…

  • Brazil Eases Up

    Brazil’s trade chamber unveils a sweeping August package that cuts or eliminates import duties on hundreds of capital goods and dozens of IT and telecom products, offering importers a partial reprieve after February’s steep tariff realignment. SAO PAULO, August 8, 2026. Brazil’s Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, known as Gecex, has…