Tag: Supply Chain
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Beijing opened an anti-dumping investigation into European p-nitrotoluene five days before the EU trade commissioner lands in the Chinese capital, turning an obscure dye and pharmaceutical intermediate into leverage at a make-or-break negotiation. BEIJING / BRUSSELS, October 4, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting China’s Ministry of Commerce opened an anti-dumping investigation on Saturday into imports…
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The ITC sets an expedited schedule that points toward five more years of duties on Chinese intermodal chassis, with no importer willing to argue the other side WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 Five years after the United States imposed antidumping and countervailing duties on intermodal chassis from China, the equipment that carries nearly every ocean container…
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Bayer committed 2.2 billion dollars to an Ohio drug plant on Thursday, three days after Washington extended 100 percent pharmaceutical tariffs to the rest of the industry. The timing was not a coincidence, and it is not the last announcement of its kind. NEW ALBANY, Ohio, October 3, 2026 Bayer AG said Thursday it will…
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Stelco will idle its cold-rolled and coated lines at Hamilton Works on Oct. 9, cutting as many as 500 positions, after demand in its traditional markets fell by nearly a quarter and the company declined both provincial and federal tariff aid HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 3, 2026 The most concrete casualty yet of the Canada United…
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Phase two of the Section 232 pharmaceutical action reaches mid-sized and small drugmakers, while a late specialty carve-out spares rare disease products from twenty designated jurisdictions WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The second and far broader phase of the United States Section 232 action on patented pharmaceuticals took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Sept.…
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Washington and Beijing move to unwind duties on roughly $60 billion of two-way trade, but the carve-outs tell importers more than the headline number does WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The United States and China have agreed to roll back tariffs on approximately $60 billion of bilateral trade under a reciprocal framework that trade officials on…
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At 12:01 a.m. on September 29 the United States stopped accepting roughly $967 million in Canadian dairy, motorcycles and beverages under a revived 1930 statute. Three days on, the measure has exposed how little protection CUSMA now offers, how exposed single-market exporters have become, and how few good options remain on either side. OTTAWA, October…
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Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on packaged Canadian alcohol took effect September 29, closing a market worth roughly $1.2 billion a year to Canadian distillers, brewers and wineries. Ottawa and the provinces are scrambling with liquidity support while producers discover that a bulk-shipment loophole is dividing the industry into winners and losers. OTTAWA, October 2, 2026…
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Five Reports on Global Trade Measures In this edition 1. Beef Quota Wall China’s safeguard surtax slams shut the world’s largest beef import market for Brazil, pushing the effective duty to 67 percent and forcing a global rerouting of protein trade in the final quarter of 2026 2. Melt Rule Bites The European Union’s melt…
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Indonesia has lifted its October crude palm oil reference price to 1,042.15 dollars a tonne, pushing the combined export duty and levy above 308 dollars and widening the cost gap that has handed Malaysia a structural advantage JAKARTA, October 2, 2026 Indonesia’s government has set the crude palm oil reference price for October 2026 at…