Fresh government trade data released Monday show the average U.S. tariff burden fell to 7.1 percent in June, even as the administration finished rebuilding its global tariff wall on a new legal foundation that courts are already testing. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 The most detailed picture yet of America’s post Supreme Court tariff landscape emerged…
New data show the average US effective tariff rate fell to 7.1 percent as Customs certifies roughly 100 billion dollars in refunds from the invalidated IEEPA tariffs, the largest duty repayment operation in American history WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 Six months after the Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs that defined the opening year…
Comment window closes on product exclusions from the forced labor tariffs now covering imports from 60 economies, as importers push toward a September 22 hearing at USTR WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 The deadline arrived at 11:59 p.m. Monday night. Companies seeking relief from the sweeping Section 301 forced labor tariffs, the 10 to 12.5 percent…
Britain orders registration of suspension PVC imports from China, Mexico and South Korea, exposing shippers to possible backdated anti-dumping duties while a legacy steel measure quietly lapses. LONDON, August 11, 2026 British importers of suspension polyvinyl chloride woke up on Monday to a new layer of customs scrutiny, after HM Revenue and Customs confirmed that…
Brussels imposes provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 102.4% on Chinese silico-manganese steel welding wire, forcing importers, distributors and fabricators across Europe to reprice a workhorse consumable almost overnight. BRUSSELS, August 11, 2026 The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 102.4% on imports of certain silico-manganese steel welding wire from China,…
China imposes provisional anti-dumping deposits on pecans from the United States and Mexico, saddling non-responsive American exporters with a punishing 54.3 percent margin as collections begin at the border. BEIJING, August 11, 2026 Chinese Customs began collecting security deposits on imported pecans from the United States and Mexico on Tuesday, one day after the Ministry…
President Trump’s new Section 232 order imposes a 15 percent tariff and unprecedented price floors on polysilicon imports, and a fight over how and when to collect the duties is already reshaping the solar and semiconductor supply chains WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2026 The Trump administration spent the weekend wrestling with how to implement one of…
Three weeks into the 3 euro duty on small parcels, Brussels is squeezing the Shein and Temu pipeline while racing an October deadline to rebalance the wider China trade relationship International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: The most consequential customs change Europe has made in a generation…
From Niagara wineries to Quebec cement plants and the hockey equipment lines of small-town Ontario, Canadian industry begins a 30-day sprint to outrun a 50 percent American tariff, while importers and brokers scramble to reprice the border TORONTO, July 21, 2026 The phone calls started before the proclamations were even posted. Within hours of the…