Tag: Import Duties
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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…
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Ottawa imposes a 25 per cent provisional safeguard on imported wood cabinets and vanities, and importers have until August 5 before they even learn how to declare it OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Canadian importers of kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities returned from the Civic Holiday long weekend to a new 25 per cent surtax that…
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Britain locks in 48.5 percent anti-dumping duties on Chinese bicycles until 2029 and extends the net to Malaysia, Pakistan and a wide range of Chinese components, in the most assertive trade defence action of the UK’s post-Brexit era. LONDON, AUG. 2 – The United Kingdom has quietly assembled one of the most comprehensive trade defence…
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The Court of International Trade has sustained Commerce’s replacement for the discredited Cohen’s d test, leaving Canadian softwood margins essentially unchanged and validating a methodology that now reaches every antidumping case in the American system NEW YORK / OTTAWA, July 30, 2026 – The United States Court of International Trade has upheld the Commerce Department’s…
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The transition window on Washington’s forced labor tariffs closed this week, locking duties of 10 to 12.5 percent onto imports from 60 economies covering virtually all US trade and completing the largest single rebuild of the American tariff wall in decades WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026. The last grace period in the United States’ sweeping new…
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A two year countdown on generic drug tariffs formally began Saturday, giving the manufacturers of nine in ten American prescriptions until August 2028 to build in the United States or face duties of 100 percent, then 200 percent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The most consequential tariff of the week is one that, for now, collects…
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A Saturday publication of more than 1,400 tariff changes brings duties of up to 86.5 percent on Chinese steel fasteners, plus new measures on specialty plastics and plywood, as Brussels hardens its trade defences while high-stakes talks with Beijing grind on. BRUSSELS, AUG. 2 – Importers across the European Union are spending the first days…
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Brussels locks in definitive anti-dumping tariffs of up to 67.6 percent on Chinese polyamide yarns, capping a twelve-month investigation and forcing a rethink of sourcing strategies across Europe’s textile supply chain BRUSSELS, July 31, 2026. The European Commission this week imposed definitive anti-dumping duties ranging from 60 percent to 67.6 percent on imports of polyamide…
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One day before the steepest pharmaceutical tariffs in modern American history take effect, the world’s largest drugmakers are racing to lock in agreements that would spare them a 100 percent duty on patented medicines WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026. The United States stands one day away from the most consequential deadline in the modern history of…
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Ottawa imposes a 25 per cent provisional safeguard surtax on imported wood cabinets and vanities, opening a 200 day window while the Canadian International Trade Tribunal decides whether a global import surge is destroying a domestic industry already boxed in by American duties OTTAWA, August 2, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canada has turned a…