Tag: Supply Chain

  • Deficit Shock

    The August goods and services gap blew out to $105.6 billion, the widest in 19 months, as record capital goods imports driven by artificial intelligence buildout overwhelmed the tariff wall that was supposed to narrow it. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 The U.S. trade deficit widened to $105.6 billion in August, the Census Bureau and the…

  • Trade Gap Jumps

    The August goods and services deficit widened to $105.6 billion as imports surged 4.3 percent, overshooting forecasts and raising fresh questions about whether a rebuilt tariff wall is doing what its architects promised WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2026 The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services widened sharply in August to $105.6 billion, according to the…

  • Brazil Walls Up

    Brasilia has rolled its chemical import wall forward for a third straight year, yet it quietly refused the industry’s request to build that wall higher. The distance between those two facts is the entire story. SAO PAULO, October 7, 2026. Brazil’s Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, known as Gecex, published two…

  • Steel Gate Shut

    Five days into the European Union’s fourth-quarter steel quota window, the biggest supply lines were not merely full but queued two deep. The next legal opening is January 1, and the rulebook that governs it expires on New Year’s Eve. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. The European Union’s new permanent steel trade measure opened its fourth…

  • Beijing Brink

    Three days before the European Union’s trade chief was due in Beijing, Paris and Berlin demanded a legal weapon capable of cutting a third country out of the single market. Brussels is now negotiating and arming at the same time, and China has begun saying so in public. BRUSSELS, October 7, 2026. Maros Sefcovic travels…

  • EU Trade Axe

    Macron and Merz have asked Brussels for a new instrument that would let the Commission restrict market access within days, reversing the burden of proof among member states and giving Europe a tool its officials openly compare to America’s Section 301 BRUSSELS / BERLIN / PARIS, 6 October 2026 – France and Germany have jointly…

  • Counter-Cost

    Calgary says two-thirds of its half-billion-dollar tariff exposure comes from Ottawa’s own retaliation, not Washington’s. Municipalities want a carve-out that the remission framework does not currently give them. CALGARY, Oct. 7, 2026. City councillors here are asking the federal government to exempt municipalities from Canada’s own counter-tariffs, after administration warned that between $308 million and…

  • Export Surge

    Canada posted a record $11.2 billion merchandise surplus with the United States in August as shippers raced to beat Washington’s Section 338 duties. Economists call it a borrowed quarter. OTTAWA, Oct. 7, 2026. Canada’s merchandise trade surplus with the United States widened to $11.2 billion in August from $6.1 billion in July, the largest one-month…

  • UK’s EV Dilemma

    Brussels wants London to match its duties on Chinese electric cars as the price of entry to the Buy European framework. The business secretary says the question is under closer review than almost anything else on his desk, and Britain’s exporters are watching Beijing. LONDON, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting The United Kingdom…

  • EU’s 301 Push

    France and Germany want Brussels to be able to shut Chinese goods out of the single market within 24 hours. China’s commerce ministry says the instrument would backfire. The European Parliament weighs in next week, and the Commission tables its package in December. BRUSSELS, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting The European Union is…