Tag: Manufacturing
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Canberra and New South Wales have committed A$2.5 billion over a decade to keep Australia’s largest aluminium smelter alive, a bailout that lays bare the accelerating global race to subsidise strategic metals. SYDNEY, August 13, 2026. Australia’s federal government and the New South Wales state government on Thursday jointly announced a rescue package worth A$2.5…
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Canadian businesses choose watchful waiting over panic shipping as the 50 percent tariff deadline approaches, betting that Washington will blink again By Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk | TORONTO, August 15, 2026 With five days until the United States imposes 50 percent tariffs on nearly 20 billion United States dollars in Canadian exports, the country’s…
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Two days before the steepest US tariffs ever aimed at Canada take effect, businesses on both sides of the border rush shipments, rewrite contracts and brace for a Tuesday that could reshape 20 billion dollars in trade TORONTO, August 17, 2026 In warehouses along the 401 corridor, in dairies in Quebec, in wineries in the…
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Brussels imposes provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 102.4% on Chinese silico-manganese steel welding wire, forcing importers, distributors and fabricators across Europe to reprice a workhorse consumable almost overnight. BRUSSELS, August 11, 2026 The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 102.4% on imports of certain silico-manganese steel welding wire from China,…
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Brasilia rewrites the tariff fine print on hundreds of machines, chips and truck parts, betting that cheaper imported equipment can keep its reindustrialization drive on track while a 25 percent United States tariff squeezes its exporters from the outside. BRASILIA, August 10, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has pushed through one of the broadest single-week…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more steel, aluminum and copper derivative categories, from brass instruments and floor safes to tanker trailers, with comments due August 27 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 The United States Department of Commerce is proposing to extend Section 232 duties to 14 additional categories of steel, aluminum and copper derivative…
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White House imposes 15 percent Section 232 duty and a first-of-its-kind minimum import price program on polysilicon, wafers, cells and solar modules, effective December 4 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 15 percent ad valorem tariff on imported polysilicon and a broad range of its derivatives, pairing the…
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Brazil’s trade chamber unveils a sweeping August package that cuts or eliminates import duties on hundreds of capital goods and dozens of IT and telecom products, offering importers a partial reprieve after February’s steep tariff realignment. SAO PAULO, August 8, 2026. Brazil’s Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, known as Gecex, has…
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A temporary Commerce Department rule issued under Defense Production Act authority orders United States sellers of battery black mass and tungsten scrap to route all monthly sales to domestic buyers from August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has closed the export door on two recovered…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more metal derivative articles, from aluminum powder and brass instruments to tanker trailers and filled steel cylinders, with public comments due August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has proposed extending Section 232 metals tariffs to 14 additional categories…