Tag: Manufacturing

  • India Glass MIP

    India has walled off the bottom of its float glass market, imposing a Rs 34,000 per tonne price floor on imports that squeezes low-cost suppliers from China and Southeast Asia while handing domestic producers a year of breathing room. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India has erected a price floor beneath one of the most…

  • UK Lift Duties

    Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 71.74 percent on Chinese boom lifts take effect as the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority moves at record pace to shield domestic producer Niftylift. LONDON, August 24, 2026. The United Kingdom has imposed a provisional anti-dumping measure on imports of boom lifts from China, with duty rates ranging from 16.25…

  • Cost Of No Deal

    Roughly 90,000 jobs, two to three tenths of a point off growth, and an average tariff that jumped almost two points overnight. What the numbers say about the August rupture, why British Columbia and Ontario absorb the worst of it, and what a Canadian exporter should do in the next 30 days. OTTAWA, AUGUST 24,…

  • Metal Net Grows

    Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…

  • Drone Duty Bite

    Two weeks before Section 232 duties of up to 100 percent hit imported unmanned aircraft, small U.S. operators are pulling five-figure purchases forward and Commerce has yet to publish the classification guidance importers need WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2026 With 13 days left before the first tranche of Section 232 tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems takes…

  • India Glass Bar

    New Delhi imposes a minimum import price and licensing wall on cheap clear float glass, shielding domestic producers from low-priced Asian supply and adding a fresh layer to one of the world’s most protected glass markets NEW DELHI, Aug. 20, 2026 India has thrown up a new barrier against low-priced glass imports, converting the import…

  • Steel At 25%

    Negotiators are reported to have settled on halving Section 232 metals duties for Canada, but a volume cap near four million tonnes and unresolved treatment of derivatives mean the relief will be narrower than the headline number suggests HAMILTON, Ontario, August 21, 2026 – The single most consequential number in the Canada-United States trade package…

  • Mexico Auto Ask

    Mexico City presses Washington to shrink the 25 percent Section 232 automotive tariff as the USMCA review heads toward a make or break fourth round in September, with rules of origin, steel, and the future of North American carmaking on the table WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2026 – Mexico is mounting its most determined push yet…

  • UK Lifts Duty

    Britain slaps provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 71.74 percent on Chinese boom lifts, opening a new front in the widening global scramble to wall off Chinese industrial exports LONDON, 20 August 2026 Britain moved on Thursday to shield a single Milton Keynes manufacturer from a flood of low-priced Chinese aerial work platforms, imposing provisional…

  • Metals Halved

    Negotiators have sketched a tentative arrangement cutting Section 232 steel and aluminium duties to 25 per cent and auto tariffs to 15 per cent, but derivative products, exclusions and aluminium traceability remain unresolved WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 The most commercially significant element of the emerging Canada-United States trade arrangement is not the 50 per cent…