Tag: Food & Beverage

  • Import Ban Day

    Thirteen days remain before packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, along with whey, molasses, non alcoholic beer and motorcycles above 800 cc, are excluded from entry into the United States altogether. Customs brokers are racing to clear inventory, trade counsel are parsing a transitional rule, and Canadian distillers are confronting a market closure rather than…

  • EU Halts Brazil

    Brasilia threatens reciprocal measures and leans on a favorable audit as the European Union’s suspension of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey enters its second week, putting up to 2 billion dollars in annual trade at risk. BRASILIA, Sept. 14, 2026 The most consequential trade rupture between the European Union and Latin America this year…

  • Boycott Bites

    Canada’s buy-Canadian movement has gone from mood to mechanism, forcing grocers to relabel shelves, rewire supply chains and absorb costs as counter-tariffs on U.S. food take hold Toronto, September 14, 2026 The trade war between Canada and the United States has reached the produce aisle. A Reuters report published Saturday, drawing on interviews with independent…

  • Beef Ban Rift

    Brazil weighs retaliation and a WTO challenge as the EU’s antimicrobial suspension of beef, poultry, eggs and honey enters its second week, straining a Mercosur trade pact that is barely four months old. BRASILIA, September 12, 2026. Ten days into the European Union’s suspension of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the two sides remain…

  • EU Beef Ban

    Brussels has cut off Brazilian beef, poultry, egg and honey imports over antibiotic standards just as Mercosur’s own beef producers remain locked in a bitter fight over how to divide their shared European quota. BRASILIA, September 11, 2026 A week after the European Union formally suspended imports of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the…

  • Veg Safeguard

    The Canadian International Trade Tribunal filed its report on frozen and canned vegetable imports with the Governor in Council on September 9, exactly on deadline. The determination is not yet public, and a 10 per cent provisional surtax plus refund exposure hangs on it. OTTAWA, September 10, 2026 While the Canada United States tariff conflict…

  • Wheat Duty Halt

    Russia suspends its floating export duties on wheat, barley, and corn through the end of 2026 as attacks on Black Sea ports strangle the world’s largest wheat export machine, with global grain markets repricing the risk MOSCOW, September 8, 2026 Russia is dismantling, at least temporarily, one of the most consequential taxes in global agriculture.…

  • EU Rice Duty Up

    Brussels raises the import tariff on husked rice by more than 40 percent under an automatic volume trigger, squeezing exporters from South Asia and South America and testing the margins of European rice millers BRUSSELS, September 8, 2026 The European Union has raised its import duty on husked rice from 30.00 euros to 42.50 euros…

  • Dairy Duty Hit

    Ottawa hits U.S. cheese with 25 per cent and milk powder, whey and casein with 50 per cent from Tuesday, turning the sector Washington most wants opened into the sector Canada has now closed hardest. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting OTTAWA, September 7, 2026 – Of all the sectors on Canada’s…

  • Beef Quota Move

    Trump opens a 300,000 metric ton duty free window for imported lean beef, handing Brazil and Paraguay a windfall while American ranchers cry foul WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2026. President Donald Trump this week signed a proclamation that temporarily lifts the steep out-of-quota tariff on up to 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, the…