Tag: Supply Chain


  • Silicon Squeeze

    President Trump’s new Section 232 order imposes a 15 percent tariff and unprecedented price floors on polysilicon imports, and a fight over how and when to collect the duties is already reshaping the solar and semiconductor supply chains WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2026 The Trump administration spent the weekend wrestling with how to implement one of…

  • Beijing Strikes

    China’s August 5 countermeasure package, spanning entity blacklistings, drone export curbs and a first-ever foreign trade national security probe into imported printers, is rippling far beyond Washington and into Asia-Pacific and European supply chains. BEIJING, August 10, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce unleashed a coordinated cluster of trade countermeasures on August 5, and five days…

  • Brazil Retools

    Brasilia rewrites the tariff fine print on hundreds of machines, chips and truck parts, betting that cheaper imported equipment can keep its reindustrialization drive on track while a 25 percent United States tariff squeezes its exporters from the outside. BRASILIA, August 10, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has pushed through one of the broadest single-week…

  • Tokyo Steel Hit

    Japan has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of 29.2 percent to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare and forceful use of trade remedies by a country long known for restraint. TOKYO, August 10, 2026 Japan’s steel trade defenses, dormant for most of the postwar era, are now firmly in…

  • Polysilicon Tax

    White House imposes 15 percent Section 232 duty and a first-of-its-kind minimum import price program on polysilicon, wafers, cells and solar modules, effective December 4 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 15 percent ad valorem tariff on imported polysilicon and a broad range of its derivatives, pairing the…

  • Brazil Cuts Tax

    Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has eliminated import duties on dozens of technology products and rewritten tariff relief for hundreds of capital goods, auto parts and heavy vehicles, a package that takes effect August 13 as the country works to lower investment costs while absorbing a new 25 percent American tariff on its exports. BRASILIA, August…

  • Brazil Eases Up

    Brazil’s trade chamber unveils a sweeping August package that cuts or eliminates import duties on hundreds of capital goods and dozens of IT and telecom products, offering importers a partial reprieve after February’s steep tariff realignment. SAO PAULO, August 8, 2026. Brazil’s Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, known as Gecex, has…

  • Scrap Lockdown

    A temporary Commerce Department rule issued under Defense Production Act authority orders United States sellers of battery black mass and tungsten scrap to route all monthly sales to domestic buyers from August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has closed the export door on two recovered…

  • Gulf Glass Duty

    The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has finalized a definitive anti-dumping duty on Chinese glass imports that takes effect September 5, 2026, capping a 22-month investigation and opening a new Gulf front in the global pushback against China’s glass overcapacity. RIYADH, August 7, 2026 The Gulf Cooperation Council has finalized a definitive anti-dumping duty on certain…

  • Polysilicon Hit

    The White House prepares a hybrid price floor and tariff regime on the raw material behind every chip and solar panel, aiming at China’s 93.5 percent grip on global supply while U.S. solar developers brace for higher costs WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The Trump administration is preparing to impose a combination of minimum import prices…