Tag: Medical Devices


  • Country-specific Section 232 exemption arrangements – EU, UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Korea. Quota arrangements vs. flat tariff rates.

  • How Section 232 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) work for specific countries. Quota allocations, fill tracking, in-quota vs over-quota rates.

  • California-Mexico trade flow guide. Otay Mesa, Calexico crossings. Tijuana maquila cluster, electronics and medical devices.

  • HTS Chapter 90 precision instruments. Optical, photographic, measuring, medical, surgical instruments. Boundary with Chapter 84-85.

  • MedTech industry tariff strategy. Section 232 MedTech investigation, FDA-CBP coordination, USMCA on Mexican MedTech.

  • Trump’s Swiss-Liechtenstein Trade Framework: Investment Windfall or Overpromised Fix?

    President Donald J. Trump has unveiled a new trade framework with Switzerland and Liechtenstein, pitched as a historic win for American workers and exporters. The Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade promises to eliminate barriers, attract $200 billion in foreign investment, and reduce the $38.5 billion trade deficit by 2028. But behind the fanfare,…

  • Ireland’s Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Powerhouse and the Ever-Shifting US Trade Policy

    Author: Maria Pechurina, MA, Director of International Trade @ Peacock Tariff Consulting Earlier in 2025, on St. Patrick’s Day, US President Donald J. Trump lamented that Ireland, a “beautiful island of just 5 million people, has got the entire US pharmaceutical industry in its grasp.” In America’s pursuit of self-sufficiency, its overwhelming reliance on foreign…