Tag: Imports
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Trump opens a 300,000 metric ton duty free window for imported lean beef, handing Brazil and Paraguay a windfall while American ranchers cry foul WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2026. President Donald Trump this week signed a proclamation that temporarily lifts the steep out-of-quota tariff on up to 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, the…
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Australia’s latest round of Tariff Concession Order amendments grants new duty-free access for some imported goods while revoking concessions on others, reshuffling costs for importers across more than thirty countries CANBERRA, August 29, 2026 Australia has published a fresh batch of customs tariff amendments under its Tariff Concession Order system, simultaneously granting new duty-free concessions…
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Trump invokes emergency powers to bar foreign adversary equipment from the power grid, opening a new front in the trade war that tariffs alone could not reach WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2026. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared a national emergency over the security of the American power grid and signed an executive order that empowers…
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Executive Order 14420 declares a national emergency over foreign-made bulk-power equipment, gives the Energy Secretary 120 days to write rules, and reaches software, firmware, and remote access as well as transformers and inverters WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2026. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday declaring a national emergency over foreign produced equipment in…
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Beijing reserves the right to retaliate as Washington prepares a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity duty that would push second-term tariffs on Chinese goods back toward 20 percent, weeks before a Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2026. The Trump administration is preparing to impose a new 7.5 percent tariff on Chinese goods as the remedy…
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Washington readies a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity duty on Chinese goods that would lift second-term replacement tariffs to the exact 20 percent ceiling Beijing says it was promised, one month before a White House summit WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2026 The Trump administration is preparing to impose a new 7.5 percent tariff on Chinese goods…
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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…
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Brussels opens an absorption reinvestigation into Chinese titanium dioxide, testing whether exporters have swallowed anti-dumping duties and setting the stage for even higher tariffs on a pigment that colours everything from paint to paper By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, Aug. 31, 2026. The European Commission has opened a rare absorption reinvestigation into…
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Washington is preparing a 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff on Chinese goods, engineered to hit the exact ceiling of the bilateral truce, weeks before Xi Jinping arrives for a September 24 summit that will decide whether the truce survives By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The…
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The White House is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would reach laptops, servers and gaming consoles, and may scrap January’s data center exemptions, setting up a collision between reshoring policy and the AI buildout By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The Trump…