Tag: Supply Chain
-
Alcoholic beverages account for 87 percent of the US$1 billion American exclusion order that took force on September 29, striking a Canadian spirits sector that sends 93 percent of its exports to one customer and now faces a domestic market still fractured by provincial barriers. TORONTO, September 29, 2026. Canada’s distillers, brewers, cider makers and…
-
Washington and Beijing publish reciprocal product lists covering $60 billion in trade, handing importers of toys and household goods their first broad tariff relief of the Trump second term while leaving the hardest questions on rare earths unanswered WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2026 – The United States and China released matching product lists on Monday that…
-
Vietnam has 17 trade agreements and uses barely any of them. Officials in Ho Chi Minh City put preferential certificate uptake under 10 percent for CPTPP and warn that tariff margins alone no longer win markets. HO CHI MINH CITY, September 28, 2026 Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has set out an uncomfortable diagnosis…
-
Southeast Asia keeps a tariff-slashing pact with the Gulf Cooperation Council on its agenda as a feasibility study heads for a year-end deadline and Indonesia races to conclude its own bilateral deal. JAKARTA, September 28, 2026 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is keeping a prospective free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council on…
-
Brussels reports that goods exports to preferential partners rose by 250 billion euros in 2025 and grew at more than twice the rate of overall trade, offsetting the collapse of the Russian market. BRUSSELS, September 28, 2026 The European Commission published its sixth annual report on the implementation and enforcement of European Union trade and…
-
Canpotex breaks ground on a $500 million expansion at Neptune Bulk Terminals as Ottawa’s trade diversification push moves from rhetoric to poured concrete, with Asian, European and Indian markets in view. NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 28, 2026 While Canadian distillers count down to a U.S. import ban and the automotive sector watches a January…
-
With 95 days until Washington’s threatened 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian vehicles, parts and steel take effect, the U.S. Trade Representative says there is no urgency to make a deal. Canada’s auto belt is doing the math. WINDSOR, Ontario, September 28, 2026 Ninety-five days separate Canada’s automotive sector from January 1, 2027, the date…
-
Eight days before Washington bars Canadian whey from entering the United States, customs guidance is still unpublished, the global protein market is already short, and the loudest voice against the ban is the American dairy processing industry ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia, September 21, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 29, Canadian whey stops…
-
Washington’s Section 338 prohibitions on Canadian alcohol, dairy proteins, molasses and large motorcycles take effect Tuesday, converting a 50 per cent tariff wall into an outright border closure for roughly $846 million in annual trade OTTAWA, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 29, a set of Canadian goods that have…
-
At 12:01 a.m. Monday the transition heading that has held most branded drug importers at zero since July expires, and the Section 232 pharmaceutical regime reaches everyone outside seventeen named companies. There is no in-transit grace. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2026 – The second and larger phase of the United States Section 232 pharmaceutical tariff takes effect…