Tag: Market Access
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Macron and Merz want a Commission instrument that can sever a trading partner from 450 million consumers, approved unless a qualified majority says no BERLIN, PARIS and BRUSSELS, October 8, 2026 A two-page letter on two letterheads, dated only “Berlin, Paris, October 2026,” left for the Berlaymont on Monday, October 5. It carried the signatures…
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Japan has agreed sanitary terms allowing Argentine beef back after twenty years, but a 38.5 percent tariff and no quota leave the deal’s commercial value hostage to the trade architecture Buenos Aires has yet to negotiate BUENOS AIRES / TOKYO, October 2, 2026 Argentina has secured agreement with Japan on the animal health requirements that…
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New Oxford Economics analysis puts the EU’s economic stake in British car production at 24 billion euros and 250,000 jobs. British industry is using the figures to argue against exclusion from the bloc’s “Made in Europe” procurement and incentive rules. LONDON / BRUSSELS, 22 September 2026 The British motor industry published analysis on Tuesday quantifying,…
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Trump’s memorandum orders Canadian goods stripped from U.S. federal civil purchasing, opening a front in the trade war that tariffs cannot reach and negotiators may not be able to close WASHINGTON and OTTAWA, September 17, 2026. President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday directing his budget office and trade representative to identify and…
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India and China open first structured trade talks in years, targeting a 99 billion dollar deficit, tariff frictions and supply chain bottlenecks as Asia’s two giants test a commercial detente NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 India and China have formally begun discussions to address their long-festering bilateral trade grievances, including one of the world’s largest…
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Five presidential proclamations signed Tuesday bar most Canadian alcohol, several dairy lines and larger motorcycles from the United States market beginning September 29, replacing tariffs with outright prohibition and removing the CUSMA shelter that Canadian exporters had relied on. OTTAWA, September 9, 2026 – The United States moved on Tuesday from taxing Canadian goods to…
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A quiet notice in the August 1 Canada Gazette opens the formal public comment window on a Canada-Türkiye free trade agreement, and buried inside it is a steel quota question Ottawa has not yet answered OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Global Affairs Canada published a notice in Part I of the Canada Gazette on Saturday, August…
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India closes its first WTO trade policy review in five years defending high tariffs and development carve-outs, as 68 members press New Delhi on predictability, licensing and localization amid its FTA blitz. GENEVA, July 27, 2026, and the file on India’s trade regime is now formally closed, at least until the next quinquennial reckoning. India…
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One week into the India-UK trade agreement, exporters on both sides are navigating new rules of origin to claim the deepest tariff cuts India has ever granted a Western partner International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 NEW DELHI, July 21, 2026: The largest trade agreement either country has concluded in years…