Tag: Manufacturing


  • Plate vs. Japan

    Mexico opens an anti-dumping investigation into Japanese sheet steel plate, a rare trade-remedy strike at a CPTPP partner, capping a week of aggressive steel defense actions. MEXICO CITY, September 7, 2026 Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has opened a formal anti-dumping investigation into imports of sheet steel plate originating in Japan, an unusual move against one…

  • Mexico Steel AD

    Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has opened an anti-dumping investigation into Japanese hot-rolled carbon steel plate after petitioner Grupo Acerero documented a 35-fold surge in imports, adding Tokyo to a growing list of targets in Mexico’s rapidly hardening steel trade defence campaign. MEXICO CITY, September 4, 2026 Mexico’s Ministry of Economy, the Secretaría de Economía, has…

  • EU Steel Clamp

    Brussels has finalized the documentary rules that will force every steel importer to prove where its metal was first melted and poured, and the opening week of September finds importers, mills and freight forwarders around the world racing to rebuild their paperwork before the October 1 deadline. BRUSSELS, September 5, 2026 The European Commission’s adoption…

  • Brazil Duty Cut

    Brasilia’s foreign trade chamber has rolled out a fresh package of import duty relief covering nearly 500 capital goods, dozens of IT and telecom products, and a reworked exemption list for trucks, trailers, and farm machinery, extending a year of rapid-fire tariff engineering aimed at cutting the cost of industrial modernization. BRASILIA, September 4, 2026…

  • Metal Doubles

    Canada’s surtax on U.S. steel and aluminum jumps from 25 to 50 per cent overnight, iron and steel now accounts for nearly a third of Ottawa’s entire counter-tariff list, and a quota deal that would have halved the rate is back on the table too late to matter. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock…

  • 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…

  • Deere Duty Bill

    The equipment maker told investors its tariff expense will climb toward 1 billion dollars next year even as customs refunds from invalidated duties fade, offering one of the clearest corporate readings yet of what the post-IEEPA tariff structure costs American manufacturers MOLINE, Ill., Aug. 26, 2026 Deere and Company expects its annual tariff bill to…

  • China Cap Gap

    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…

  • Drone Duty Dawn

    With 100 percent Section 232 tariffs on imported drones set to bite September 3, importers, public safety agencies and an entire trade show full of buyers confront the most aggressive drone trade action in US history By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. In three days,…

  • Drug Duty Dash

    Four weeks before 100 percent Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs extend to every importer, smaller drugmakers race for US manufacturing capacity, exemption deals, and answers WASHINGTON, September 1, 2026: With the calendar turning to September, the pharmaceutical industry entered the final four weeks before the most consequential deadline in modern drug trade policy: on September 29,…