Tag: Global Supply Chains


  • Steel Wall Up

    Three weeks into the EU’s 50 percent out-of-quota steel duty, exporters from Tokyo to Seoul are counting the cost, importers are racing quota clocks, and Beijing is warning of a response International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRUSSELS, July 21, 2026: Three weeks after the European Union switched on the most…

  • Brazil Duty Cut

    Brasilia zeroes tariffs on six strategic imports and multiplies a medical device quota, using a Mercosur supply mechanism to cool input costs while the world’s tariff walls rise International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRASILIA, July 21, 2026: Brazil has moved in the opposite direction of much of the trading world…

  • EU Tariff Wall

    Brussels warns that dialogue alone will not suffice as it readies unilateral safeguards, quotas and duties on Chinese imports ahead of an October deadline, hours after Beijing posts a record trade surplus International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 14, 2026 The European Union will impose unilateral trade defense measures on Chinese imports…

  • Zero-Duty Dawn

    India and the United Kingdom flip the switch Wednesday on the deepest tariff liberalisation either country has attempted in a generation, wiping out duties on 99 percent of Indian tariff lines, halving India’s 150 percent whisky tariff overnight and opening a quota lane for British cars at 10 percent International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting…

  • Seoul PVC Duty

    South Korea locks in five-year anti-dumping tariffs of up to 31.55 percent on PVC paste resin from Germany, France, Norway and Sweden, a ruling that pits two embattled chemical industries against each other and signals a harder line from Seoul on low-priced imports SEOUL, July 10, 2026 South Korea’s finance ministry moved Friday to impose…