Tag: Supply Chain
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New Delhi slashes export duties on diesel, petrol and jet fuel in the deepest single easing of its 2026 fuel levy cycle, signalling that the supply emergency triggered by the West Asia crisis has passed its peak NEW DELHI, September 17, 2026. India has cut the export levy on diesel by five rupees a litre…
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Thai negotiators worked through the night with USTR ahead of a proposed leader-level call this week, racing to lock in a reciprocal trade agreement before a separate Section 301 overcapacity investigation lands on one of America’s largest Asian suppliers. BANGKOK and WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2026 Thailand’s trade negotiators spoke with the Office of the United…
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Ontario tells 444 municipalities that Buy Ontario compliance is a condition of provincial funding, turning a procurement directive into a fiscal instrument on the same day Washington moved against Canadian suppliers TORONTO, September 17, 2026. Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing wrote to the heads of council of all 444 Ontario municipalities this week…
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Trump’s memorandum orders Canadian goods stripped from U.S. federal civil purchasing, opening a front in the trade war that tariffs cannot reach and negotiators may not be able to close WASHINGTON and OTTAWA, September 17, 2026. President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday directing his budget office and trade representative to identify and…
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Brussels trade officials reviewed implementation of the bloc’s new steel regime on 15 September as importers face a two week countdown to compulsory melt and pour declarations, an 18.3 million tonne duty free ceiling and a 50 percent out of quota tariff. Brussels, 16 September 2026 European Union member state trade officials gathered at the…
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Thirteen days remain before packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, along with whey, molasses, non alcoholic beer and motorcycles above 800 cc, are excluded from entry into the United States altogether. Customs brokers are racing to clear inventory, trade counsel are parsing a transitional rule, and Canadian distillers are confronting a market closure rather than…
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Ottawa closed its first Canada Investment Summit with nearly $500 billion in commitments, a corporate tax deduction it says will give Canada the lowest effective rate on new business investment in the G7, and a plan to sell long term concessions on the country’s four largest airports. The pitch is a tariff strategy by another…
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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,…
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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…