Tag: Customs Compliance
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Brussels has finalized the documentary rules that will force every steel importer to prove where its metal was first melted and poured, and the opening week of September finds importers, mills and freight forwarders around the world racing to rebuild their paperwork before the October 1 deadline. BRUSSELS, September 5, 2026 The European Commission’s adoption…
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Canada’s dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on $27.6 billion of U.S. goods take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, closing the in-transit window and handing importers a 629-line compliance problem that lands before most customs desks open. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 – Canadian importers have until midnight tonight to get…
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Eight weeks into the EU’s hardened steel import regime, quotas are running dry, importers are stuck at customs, and Brussels faces a Monday deadline to define the traceability rules that will govern the next phase. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The European Commission has less than a week to finalize one of the most consequential pieces…
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Washington switches on 50 per cent Section 338 duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods after three days of talks collapse. Ottawa promises a matching strike on September 8, and for the first time in the CUSMA era a valid certificate of origin buys an importer nothing. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24, 2026 The United States…
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Canada and the United States enter the final hours of a three-day reprieve from the first Section 338 tariffs in the statute’s 96-year history, with roughly US$20 billion in cross-border trade riding on documents that still are not signed OTTAWA, August 21, 2026 – Canadian and American negotiators are working against a midnight expiry tonight…
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Customs and Border Protection tells the Court of International Trade it has returned 100 billion dollars of invalidated emergency-powers duties, but the hardest 11.4 billion dollars remains frozen behind a Justice Department appeal WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 United States Customs and Border Protection has paid out 100 billion dollars in refunds of tariffs collected under…
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America’s 100 percent pharmaceutical tariff is now the law of the land for the industry’s biggest names, and the rest of the sector has eight weeks to find shelter before the same duty lands on them WASHINGTON, August 4, 2026. The most aggressive sector-specific tariff in modern American trade history is no longer a threat,…
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Ottawa’s 25 per cent provisional safeguard on imported wood cabinets and vanities lands on a battered domestic industry, and importers now have days, not months, to rebuild their landed-cost models OTTAWA, August 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada’s kitchen cabinet industry spent the first working days of August absorbing something it has not had…
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The largest customs refund operation in American history has entered its final phase, returning tens of billions in unlawful IEEPA tariffs to importers, even as the government appeals the orders that made universal payback possible. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2026 – The federal government’s machinery for returning unlawfully collected tariffs reached its most consequential stage in…
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A holiday weekend burst of Special Import Measures Act activity at the border agency and the trade tribunal shows Canada’s trade remedy machinery running at full throttle, with Chinese and Vietnamese goods bearing most of the load OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 While Ottawa’s political attention stayed fixed on the August 19 deadline for new American…