Tag: Imports
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The August goods and services gap blew out to $105.6 billion, the widest in 19 months, as record capital goods imports driven by artificial intelligence buildout overwhelmed the tariff wall that was supposed to narrow it. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 The U.S. trade deficit widened to $105.6 billion in August, the Census Bureau and the…
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The August goods and services deficit widened to $105.6 billion as imports surged 4.3 percent, overshooting forecasts and raising fresh questions about whether a rebuilt tariff wall is doing what its architects promised WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2026 The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services widened sharply in August to $105.6 billion, according to the…
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The head of the World Trade Organization says the trading system has surprised her by holding together. The number she uses to prove it is also the clearest available measure of how much ground it has lost. GENEVA, October 7, 2026. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has spent much of the past year being asked when the multilateral…
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Brasilia has rolled its chemical import wall forward for a third straight year, yet it quietly refused the industry’s request to build that wall higher. The distance between those two facts is the entire story. SAO PAULO, October 7, 2026. Brazil’s Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, known as Gecex, published two…
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Five days into the European Union’s fourth-quarter steel quota window, the biggest supply lines were not merely full but queued two deep. The next legal opening is January 1, and the rulebook that governs it expires on New Year’s Eve. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. The European Union’s new permanent steel trade measure opened its fourth…
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A WTO panel will now examine whether Europe’s carbon border levy and the free allowances underpinning its own emissions market comply with the rules, in the first full legal test of climate-linked border measures as the definitive CBAM regime takes financial effect GENEVA / BRUSSELS, 6 October 2026 – The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement…
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A second anti-dumping recommendation in under a fortnight brings the number of Bangladeshi export lines facing Indian duties to five, and Dhaka’s exporters are asking whether a trade relationship worth billions is being dismantled one product at a time NEW DELHI / DHAKA, 6 October 2026 – India’s trade remedy authority has recommended anti-dumping duties…
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With Chinese brands taking nearly a quarter of September registrations and Brussels pressing London to close what it sees as a back door into the single market, Britain’s long-held position against tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles is reported to be under active review LONDON, 6 October 2026 – Britain is preparing options for tariffs on…
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Canada posted a record $11.2 billion merchandise surplus with the United States in August as shippers raced to beat Washington’s Section 338 duties. Economists call it a borrowed quarter. OTTAWA, Oct. 7, 2026. Canada’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States widened to $11.2 billion in August from $6.1 billion in July, the largest one-month…
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Commerce and Customs have capped polysilicon and solar component imports through Dec. 4 to stop buyers from front-running the Section 232 tariff and minimum import price regime, with new importers limited to 12 kilograms of polysilicon a week and brokers warned they could lose their licenses. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. Federal trade officials have moved…