Tag: Exports

  • Barrier Docket

    USTR has opened the comment window for the 2027 National Trade Estimate Report, adding a duty evasion and transshipment category and asking filers to price the export gains at stake. With Section 301 now the administration’s load-bearing tariff authority, the docket is the year’s most consequential paperwork. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the…

  • Trade Ticks Up

    The WTO’s Goods Trade Barometer climbs to 102 as merchandise flows hold above trend, defying a record surge in tariffs, import bans, and subsidies worldwide GENEVA, September 10, 2026. Global goods trade is not just surviving the most turbulent trade policy environment in a generation. By the World Trade Organization’s own measure, it is quietly…

  • Truce Test

    A planned 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff would push US duties on Chinese goods to the very ceiling of the trade truce, just as new export data shows Beijing’s shipping machine running hotter than ever ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Two weeks before President Donald Trump is scheduled to welcome…

  • India Deal Wait

    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,…

  • India Deal Snag

    New Delhi says the long-awaited US bilateral trade agreement will not be finalized until Washington offers Indian exporters a tariff rate better than their competitors get WASHINGTON and NEW DELHI, September 6, 2026 The final act of one of the Trump administration’s most consequential trade negotiations has stalled on a single word: preferential. India will…

  • Grain Duty Cut

    Moscow trims wheat and corn export duties for early September and weighs a full moratorium through year-end as Black Sea attacks choke Russia’s grain gateway and prices sink below 100 dollars a tonne By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting MOSCOW, Aug. 31, 2026. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry announced on Friday, August 28, a fresh reduction…

  • Grain Duty Dip

    Russia cut its floating export duties on wheat and corn for the week of Sept. 2 to 8 and held barley at zero, a small mechanical adjustment that lands in the middle of the worst Black Sea logistics crisis Russian grain trade has faced. MOSCOW, Sept. 1. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry lowered the floating export duties…

  • Diesel Lockout

    Russia’s decision to keep its refiners locked out of export markets for another month deepens a global diesel squeeze that has already sent futures to record premiums and left Turkey, Brazil and North Africa scrambling for replacement barrels. MOSCOW, Sept. 1: Russia’s government has extended its ban on diesel exports by producers through September 30,…

  • Fibre Duty Row

    Beijing locks in another five years of anti-dumping duties on Indian optical fibre as New Delhi widens its own trade remedy net, deepening a quiet tariff conflict between Asia’s two giants NEW DELHI, Aug. 26: China will keep anti-dumping duties on Indian single-mode optical fibre in place for another five years, extending a trade barrier…

  • Swiss Duty Deal

    China and Switzerland conclude an upgraded free trade agreement scrapping tariffs on 99.8 percent of Swiss exports, a pact analysts read as Beijing’s pointed signal to a wary European Union BERN, Aug. 26: China and Switzerland have concluded negotiations to upgrade their twelve-year-old free trade agreement, a deal that will eventually eliminate tariffs on 99.8…