Tag: Import Duties

  • Glass Wall Up

    India has imposed a one-year minimum import price on clear float glass, restricting shipments priced below Rs 34,000 per tonne while a subsidy investigation into Malaysian and Indonesian producers runs its course. NEW DELHI, August 24, 2026. India has erected a price floor beneath one of the construction and automotive sectors’ most fundamental inputs. In…

  • Sugar Duty Cut

    India throws open a rare duty-free window for 1 million tonnes of raw sugar imports, suspending a 100 percent tariff wall to tame record domestic prices before the festival season. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India, the world’s largest consumer of sugar and one of its most protected sugar markets, has cracked open its tariff…

  • UK Lift Duties

    Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 71.74 percent on Chinese boom lifts take effect as the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority moves at record pace to shield domestic producer Niftylift. LONDON, August 24, 2026. The United Kingdom has imposed a provisional anti-dumping measure on imports of boom lifts from China, with duty rates ranging from 16.25…

  • Brazil Reset

    An 80-minute phone call between Presidents Lula and Trump revives stalled negotiations over the 25 percent Section 301 tariff and the 12.5 percent forced-labor duty squeezing Brazilian exports to the United States WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The United States and Brazil agreed on Friday to restart negotiations over the tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods…

  • Metal Net Grows

    Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…

  • Saudi AD Probe

    Saudi Arabia’s trade authority has opened its second anti-dumping investigation of the year, targeting duplex paperboard from India and China as the Kingdom moves to shield a packaging industry it has spent a decade building under Vision 2030. RIYADH, Aug. 19: Saudi Arabia has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of multi-ply duplex paperboard originating…

  • PET Film Probe

    India’s trade remedies authority has opened an anti-dumping investigation into thick polyester film from China, Singapore, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s second probe into PET film imports in less than a year and a fresh signal of New Delhi’s hardening line on low priced imports. NEW DELHI, Aug. 19. India’s Directorate General…

  • Drone Duty Rush

    Twelve days before Section 232 duties of up to 100 percent hit unmanned aircraft, buyers are stripping inventory, DJI has won a courtroom reprieve, and importers still have no CBP guidance WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 The American drone market has spent the past week doing what every American import market does in the fortnight before…

  • Beef Duty Pause

    White House opens a 300,000 tonne duty-free window on ground beef as cattle numbers hit a 56-year low, handing importers a narrow and legally unusual opening WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will waive out-of-quota tariffs on as much as 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef…

  • Drone Duty Bite

    Two weeks before Section 232 duties of up to 100 percent hit imported unmanned aircraft, small U.S. operators are pulling five-figure purchases forward and Commerce has yet to publish the classification guidance importers need WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2026 With 13 days left before the first tranche of Section 232 tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems takes…