Tag: Supply Chain

  • A Paperwork Cliff: Why Canadian Truck Dealers Say They Can’t Buy New U.S. Models – and Why a Bureaucratic Mismatch Could Ripple Through the Whole Economy

    A warning from Parliament Hill When the head of the Canadian Truck Dealers Association stepped up to a microphone on Parliament Hill on May 21, 2026, the message was not the kind that usually draws crowds. There was no factory closure to announce, no jobs lost overnight, no dramatic tariff to denounce. Instead, Kevin Disher…

  • China Objects

    Beijing demands Washington fully remove its new forced labor tariffs, invoking a 20 percent cap it says was promised in bilateral talks, yet stops short of retaliation with a leaders’ summit on the horizon. Peacock Tariff Consulting | US Trade Desk | July 27, 2026 WASHINGTON, July 27. China called on the United States on…

  • Next Wave Looms

    The forced labor tariffs were the opening act, not the finale. With an overcapacity probe underway, sectoral security investigations maturing and new legal tools being tested, Washington’s rebuilt tariff machine has a full pipeline for the months ahead. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 The tariff week that…

  • Entry Scramble

    Importers have until 12:01 a.m. Tuesday to enter goods that were already on the water when the new forced labor tariffs took effect, and the fine print of the 431-page action is testing customs teams like nothing since the first China tariff waves. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26,…

  • Pharma Cliff

    Six days before 100 percent tariffs hit patented medicines, three of the world’s biggest drugmakers still have no onshoring deal, generic makers have a new 200 percent deadline of their own, and the US drug supply chain is bracing for the most expensive week in its history WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 The most consequential tariff…

  • Tariff Wall 2.0

    A forced labor case gives the White House its most durable tariff wall yet, as new duties on 60 economies replace an expired stopgap and reset the cost of nearly every product entering the United States WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 The United States began collecting a sweeping new round of import tariffs on Friday, imposing…

  • Tariff Handoff

    The 10 percent global surcharge that rescued the administration’s tariff agenda after the Supreme Court’s IEEPA ruling dies by statute on Friday, and the Section 301 regime built to replace it is arriving with no cap and no clock WASHINGTON, July 21, 2026. The most consequential deadline in American trade policy since February arrives at…

  • CETA Kicks In

    One week into the India-UK trade agreement, exporters on both sides are navigating new rules of origin to claim the deepest tariff cuts India has ever granted a Western partner International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 NEW DELHI, July 21, 2026: The largest trade agreement either country has concluded in years…

  • Brazil Duty Cut

    Brasilia zeroes tariffs on six strategic imports and multiplies a medical device quota, using a Mercosur supply mechanism to cool input costs while the world’s tariff walls rise International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | July 21, 2026 BRASILIA, July 21, 2026: Brazil has moved in the opposite direction of much of the trading world…

  • 60-Nation Levy

    The United States replaces its expiring stopgap duties with sweeping Section 301 tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on 60 trading partners, citing their failure to ban goods made with forced labor WASHINGTON, July 24, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting, US Trade Desk New American tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60…