Tag: Retaliation
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Beijing orders Chinese firms not to cooperate with Brussels over the JD.com bid for Germany’s Ceconomy, the second blocking order in four months and a direct challenge to the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation BRUSSELS, 20 August 2026 China has forbidden its companies and citizens from assisting a European Union investigation into JD.com’s proposed acquisition of…
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Carney has asked premiers to return American alcohol to liquor store shelves and stop excluding the United States from procurement, dismantling the retaliation that Washington converted into a legal finding of discrimination CHARLOTTETOWN, August 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney used a virtual first ministers meeting on Wednesday to ask every province and territory to…
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Quebec declares the American alcohol boycott a matter of provincial jurisdiction alone, complicating a federal negotiation in which liquor shelves have become a tariff trigger OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – The Quebec government has told Ottawa and Washington that American alcohol will remain off provincial liquor store shelves until the province is satisfied with the…
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Brasilia escalates its tariff fight with Washington to Geneva, filing WTO dispute DS646 against a combined 37.5 percent duty stack on 6.6 billion dollars in exports and betting that a weakened multilateral system can still deliver leverage and legitimacy. Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk BRASILIA, Aug. 3, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) Brazil has…
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Beijing bars dual-use exports to 14 European entities, including truck, motor, materials and drone makers, in direct retaliation for the EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package, deepening a trade standoff that already spans steel, small parcels, rare earths and electric vehicles. International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, July 28 – China has opened a…
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Sweeping 25 percent Section 301 tariffs on Brazilian goods take effect as Brasilia vows retaliation and a WTO challenge WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 A 25 percent tariff on most goods imported from Brazil took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time this morning, opening a new and volatile chapter in the trade relationship between the United…
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Ottawa holds its fire as Washington revives a nearly century-old trade statute, setting an August 19 deadline for a 50 per cent tariff on close to C$28 billion in Canadian exports. OTTAWA, July 27, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to fire back at the United States before a threatened 50 per cent tariff…
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Carney and the premiers project a united front as Washington’s 50 percent tariffs bear down on an August 19 deadline, with retaliation deliberately held in reserve CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged from a four-hour meeting with Canada’s premiers on the shores of Prince Edward Island this week with…
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With a 50 percent tariff cliff four weeks away and a fresh forced-labour duty already in force, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerges from a united First Ministers meeting in Charlottetown refusing to rule out retaliation while betting that intensified negotiation, not counterpunches, offers Canada its best path. CHARLOTTETOWN, July 25, 2026. Prime Minister Mark Carney…
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Washington reaches back nearly a century to a dormant Depression-era statute, placing punitive 50 percent duties on roughly 20 billion dollars of Canadian exports, from wine to cement to plywood, with an August 19 effective date and no shelter for goods that qualify under the continental trade pact. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States…