Tag: Supply Chain
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New Delhi’s finance minister calls the negotiation a plateau and USTR Jamieson Greer says no deal is imminent, as Russian oil, agriculture and an unfinished Section 301 excess capacity probe keep a $34 billion trade relationship in limbo WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 Negotiations toward a United States and India trade agreement have stalled on three…
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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…
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USTR confirms the 2018 technology transfer tariff actions did not lapse at their four year anniversaries after 162 continuation requests, and opens a second statutory review that will decide the fate of roughly $370 billion in covered trade WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed this week that the…
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The melt and pour rule became mandatory on October 1, and Europe’s 50 percent out-of-quota duty now has the origin tracing it needed to work BRUSSELS, October 8, 2026 The European Union’s steel import regime passed its quietest and most consequential deadline a week ago, and most of the world’s exporters are only now discovering…
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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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Sefcovic lands in Beijing with an October ultimatum, a one billion euro a day deficit and almost no leverage he has not already spent BRUSSELS and BEIJING, October 8, 2026 European Union Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic opened two days of talks with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing on Thursday, arriving with a deadline…
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Michigan’s Republican Senate nominee has put a call to end the Canada tariff war into a campaign ad, four weeks before the midterms and weeks after he called the tariffs necessary. Canadian exporters are watching the political arithmetic shift. WASHINGTON and OTTAWA, Oct. 8, 2026 The Canada United States tariff war acquired a new and…
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Ottawa has given Cleveland-Cliffs five business days to explain how it will honour the employment undertakings it signed to win approval for its $3.4 billion takeover of Stelco. Industry Minister Melanie Joly says the trade war is no defence. OTTAWA and HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 8, 2026 The federal government has opened a direct legal confrontation…
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Canada’s merchandise trade surplus widened to $4.2 billion in August as shipments to the United States surged 8.1 per cent ahead of Washington’s 50 per cent Section 338 duties. Economists warn the windfall was borrowed from the months that follow. OTTAWA, Oct. 8, 2026 Canadian exporters and their American customers spent August racing the clock,…
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Commerce is policing a stockpiling ban ahead of the Dec. 4 Section 232 polysilicon tariffs and price floors, putting customs brokers on notice and leaving solar buyers with eight weeks to secure inventory before module costs jump as much as 40 percent. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 Importers racing to bring solar modules and wafers into…