Tag: Section 232

  • Duty Stack Hits

    Washington’s revised Section 338 proclamations took force on September 15, layering 50 per cent duties on top of existing Section 232 metals tariffs for the first time and pushing the combined additional rate on some Canadian steel and aluminum structural goods to 75 per cent. Motorboats, furniture, lighting and printing paper joined the list. Cement,…

  • Truce Talks

    Washington and Beijing weigh reciprocal tariff cuts on roughly $30 billion in farm goods, energy and manufacturing inputs as Xi Jinping prepares for a Sept. 24 White House visit, with the survival of the one-year trade truce riding on the outcome. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. American and Chinese negotiators are discussing a package of mutual…

  • Copper Peaks

    Record prices, record Congolese imports and a looming customs deadline put US copper tariff policy at the center of global metals markets WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Copper has never been more expensive, and the reason has less to do with mines than with Washington. The benchmark three month copper contract on the London Metal Exchange…

  • Drug Duty Nears

    With the 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceuticals set to bite on September 29, importers race the clock while drugmakers weigh onshoring deals and pricing concessions WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. Three weeks from today, the United States will begin collecting a 100 percent tariff on imported patented pharmaceuticals and their active ingredients from most of…

  • Chip Tariff Row

    Washington readies Phase Two semiconductor duties as Seoul and Taipei bargain for relief and markets brace for higher electronics prices WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. The Trump administration’s plan for a second, far broader round of semiconductor tariffs hardened into the dominant story in global trade over the past several days, as negotiators from South Korea…

  • Drug Duty Cliff

    Three weeks before the September 29 deadline, 100 percent tariffs on patented drug imports loom for every company without an onshoring deal, and three of the industry’s biggest names are still exposed WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The pharmaceutical industry has entered the final three-week countdown to the broadest drug tariff in American history. On September…

  • Chip Levy Looms

    Commerce Secretary puts semiconductor tariff Phase Two on the record at the G20, and the exemption math threatens laptops, servers, consoles and the AI buildout itself WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The Trump administration’s long-signaled second wave of semiconductor tariffs moved from anonymous deliberation to on-record policy this week, after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed on…

  • Metal Doubles

    Canada’s surtax on U.S. steel and aluminum jumps from 25 to 50 per cent overnight, iron and steel now accounts for nearly a third of Ottawa’s entire counter-tariff list, and a quota deal that would have halved the rate is back on the table too late to matter. By the Canada Trade Desk | Peacock…

  • Deere Duty Bill

    The equipment maker told investors its tariff expense will climb toward 1 billion dollars next year even as customs refunds from invalidated duties fade, offering one of the clearest corporate readings yet of what the post-IEEPA tariff structure costs American manufacturers MOLINE, Ill., Aug. 26, 2026 Deere and Company expects its annual tariff bill to…

  • Chip Tax Redux

    The White House is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would reach laptops, servers and gaming consoles, and may scrap January’s data center exemptions, setting up a collision between reshoring policy and the AI buildout By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The Trump…