Tag: Imports

  • Import Ban Day

    Thirteen days remain before packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, along with whey, molasses, non alcoholic beer and motorcycles above 800 cc, are excluded from entry into the United States altogether. Customs brokers are racing to clear inventory, trade counsel are parsing a transitional rule, and Canadian distillers are confronting a market closure rather than…

  • Labor Tariffs

    USTR brought representatives of more than 50 economies to Washington to learn how to build forced-labor import bans, the enforcement arm of a Section 301 tariff program that now touches 99.4 percent of American imports. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative convened representatives of more than 50 trading partners on…

  • Trade Ticks Up

    The WTO’s Goods Trade Barometer climbs to 102 as merchandise flows hold above trend, defying a record surge in tariffs, import bans, and subsidies worldwide GENEVA, September 10, 2026. Global goods trade is not just surviving the most turbulent trade policy environment in a generation. By the World Trade Organization’s own measure, it is quietly…

  • Copper Peaks

    Record prices, record Congolese imports and a looming customs deadline put US copper tariff policy at the center of global metals markets WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Copper has never been more expensive, and the reason has less to do with mines than with Washington. The benchmark three month copper contract on the London Metal Exchange…

  • Beef Quota Move

    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…

  • TCO Shake-Up

    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…

  • Grid Import Ban

    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…

  • Grid Lockout

    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…

  • Beijing Warns

    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…

  • China Chip Levy

    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…