Tag: Manufacturing
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With the 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceuticals set to bite on September 29, importers race the clock while drugmakers weigh onshoring deals and pricing concessions WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. Three weeks from today, the United States will begin collecting a 100 percent tariff on imported patented pharmaceuticals and their active ingredients from most of…
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Washington readies Phase Two semiconductor duties as Seoul and Taipei bargain for relief and markets brace for higher electronics prices WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. The Trump administration’s plan for a second, far broader round of semiconductor tariffs hardened into the dominant story in global trade over the past several days, as negotiators from South Korea…
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Three weeks before the September 29 deadline, 100 percent tariffs on patented drug imports loom for every company without an onshoring deal, and three of the industry’s biggest names are still exposed WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The pharmaceutical industry has entered the final three-week countdown to the broadest drug tariff in American history. On September…
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Commerce Secretary puts semiconductor tariff Phase Two on the record at the G20, and the exemption math threatens laptops, servers, consoles and the AI buildout itself WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The Trump administration’s long-signaled second wave of semiconductor tariffs moved from anonymous deliberation to on-record policy this week, after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed on…
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Brasilia rewrites duty relief for 491 capital goods, zeroes tariffs on 34 IT and telecom products, and reshuffles its truck and farm machinery lists in a single September package, sharpening a year-long recalibration of the ex-tarifário regime that global equipment suppliers can no longer afford to ignore. BRASILIA, September 7, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade authorities…
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The Eurasian Economic Union opens a safeguard investigation into imports of polymer-coated flat-rolled steel, threatening new tariffs on suppliers from China to Turkiye as the bloc’s steelmakers press for protection on a third front this year MOSCOW, September 8, 2026 The Eurasian Economic Commission has initiated a safeguard investigation into imports of flat-rolled steel with…
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Mexico locks in definitive anti-dumping duties of 1.93 dollars per kilogram on Chinese hollow aluminium profiles and 1.72 dollars on US product, capping an eighteen month investigation that lands squarely in the middle of the country’s broader confrontation with Chinese metals overcapacity. MEXICO CITY, September 7, 2026. Mexico has closed one of the most closely…
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Brazil launches an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese tempered glass for stoves, ovens, washers and dishwashers, the latest in a string of 2026 trade-defence actions that test Brasilia’s balancing act between its biggest trading partner and its own factories. BRASILIA, September 5, 2026 Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretariat has opened a formal anti-dumping investigation into imports of…
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Mexico finalizes anti-dumping duties of up to 30.87 US cents per kilogram on hot-rolled steel from China and Vietnam, stacking company-specific levies on a 35 percent tariff wall. MEXICO CITY, September 7, 2026 Mexico has closed the book on one of the most consequential trade remedy cases in its recent history. On September 3, the…
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Once among the world’s most reluctant users of trade remedies, Japan has stacked two provisional anti-dumping orders on imported steel in five weeks, launched a third sweeping probe, and armed itself with new anti-circumvention powers. A fresh legal analysis published this week frames the campaign as a structural break in Japanese trade policy. TOKYO, September…