Tag: Section 232
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Commerce preliminarily set a 90.80 percent country wide dumping margin on Vietnamese welded stainless pressure pipe, a rate that stacks on top of a Section 232 steel duty already near 50 percent, and signalled it will drop seven companies from the review WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2026 The Commerce Department has preliminarily assigned a 90.80 percent…
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With Section 232 tariffs and minimum import prices on polysilicon and solar products due to bite on Dec. 4, Commerce is already policing the run up, and the price floors sit far above world market levels WASHINGTON, OCT. 13, 2026 American solar developers have roughly seven weeks before the most aggressive import pricing regime the…
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The president told a Tennessee rally that an agreement with Mexico is close, but metals and auto tariffs, a rolling USMCA review and a narrowing pre-election calendar still stand between the pledge and a signed text. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11, 2026 – President Trump told supporters at a rally here on Saturday that a trade…
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Commerce appears set to hold off raising the minimum import prices that anchor the Section 232 polysilicon program, leaving developers, module buyers and domestic manufacturers planning against a floor that may not move when they expected. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2026 – A scheduled increase in the minimum import prices that sit at the center of…
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Ottawa shelves a 16 aircraft Sikorsky order for Canada’s special forces, pulling defence procurement into a tariff conflict that has already reshaped tens of billions of dollars in cross border trade OTTAWA, OCTOBER 14, 2026 Canada has suspended its planned acquisition of 16 American built UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for its special operations forces, according…
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Cleveland-Cliffs tells Ottawa the Hamilton layoffs will proceed, daring the Carney government to enforce the job guarantees that cleared its 2024 takeover of Stelco HAMILTON, Ont., October 12, 2026 Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. has informed the federal government that its Canadian subsidiary, Stelco Holdings Inc., will press ahead with hundreds of layoffs at its Ontario mills, rejecting…
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre carried his case for duty-free automotive trade across the Detroit River on Tuesday, pressing American executives to lean on Washington as a threatened doubling of U.S. auto tariffs to 50 per cent closes in on a January 1 start date. WINDSOR, Ont., October 13, 2026 – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre crossed…
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First of up to 500 layoffs land at Hamilton Works as Ottawa’s compliance deadline for Cleveland-Cliffs expires Tuesday, turning a single steel mill into the test case for whether Canada can enforce foreign investment promises in the middle of a tariff war HAMILTON, Ont., October 11, 2026 The first wave of layoffs at Stelco’s Hamilton…
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Washington says it is “holding fast” while Ottawa declines to escalate, leaving Canadian exporters in a frozen tariff regime with no negotiating track and a CUSMA joint review that neither capital has scheduled OTTAWA, October 11, 2026 Canada enters the Thanksgiving long weekend with its most important trade relationship in a state neither government is…
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August goods and services gap jumps 13.7 percent to $105.6 billion as record imports of semiconductors and capital equipment outrun the tariff wall, forcing a hard question about what the duties are actually buying WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The American trade deficit widened to $105.6 billion in August, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the…