Tag: Import Duties

  • China Gap Levy

    The White House moves toward a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity tariff that would lift total new duties on Chinese goods to the 20 percent truce ceiling just weeks before the planned Xi-Trump summit in Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2026 – The Trump administration is moving toward imposing a new 7.5 percent tariff on imports…

  • SACU Steel Wall

    Southern African Customs Union imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese coated flat-rolled steel as Pretoria escalates its defence of a battered domestic mill sector By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting PRETORIA, Aug. 31, 2026. Provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of coated flat-rolled steel from China took effect across the Southern African Customs Union on…

  • EAEU Alloy Cut

    The Eurasian Economic Commission has carved niobium-aluminium master alloy out of its common tariff schedule and set the import duty at zero through October 2028, a small line item that opens a wide window onto how Russia and its customs union partners are managing their dependence on one of the world’s most concentrated critical mineral…

  • India Gold Peg

    India’s customs board has trimmed the benchmark import value it uses to tax gold even as bullion trades near record highs, while nudging up the floor prices applied to palm oil, soybean oil and brass scrap in the latest turn of its fortnightly valuation cycle. NEW DELHI, Sept. 1: India’s Central Board of Indirect Taxes…

  • SA Sugar Wall

    South Africa has raised its sugar import duty by roughly 44 percent after lifting the dollar-based reference price to $785 per ton, erecting a higher tariff wall around the entire Southern African Customs Union in a bid to halt an import surge that has grown more than seventy-fold in four years. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 1: Importers…

  • Quota Crunch

    Eight weeks into the EU’s hardened steel import regime, quotas are running dry, importers are stuck at customs, and Brussels faces a Monday deadline to define the traceability rules that will govern the next phase. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The European Commission has less than a week to finalize one of the most consequential pieces…

  • Chip Duty Stack

    A planned 7.5 percent overcapacity layer would push combined Section 301 exposure on Chinese semiconductors to roughly 70 percent, transforming the economics of American technology supply chains just weeks before the Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, August 25, 2026. For American companies that buy Chinese semiconductors, solar components, or battery materials, the trade story of the week…

  • Sugar Rush TRQ

    India’s first duty-free sugar import window in nearly a decade is already being rewritten on the fly, as tumbling domestic prices threaten to leave half the quota unused. NEW DELHI, August 25, 2026 Five days after New Delhi threw open its first duty-free sugar import window since the 2017-18 season, the program is simultaneously working…

  • Beef Levy Pause

    Trump waives out-of-quota tariffs on 300,000 tonnes of ground beef for 90 days, drawing fire from ranchers and Republican allies as food prices dominate the midterm landscape WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2026 By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day suspension of out-of-quota tariffs on up to 300,000 metric…

  • India Glass MIP

    India has walled off the bottom of its float glass market, imposing a Rs 34,000 per tonne price floor on imports that squeezes low-cost suppliers from China and Southeast Asia while handing domestic producers a year of breathing room. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India has erected a price floor beneath one of the most…