Tag: Supply Chain
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Ankara ends a 16-month suspension on bread wheat and cracked wheat exports, reopening a closely watched channel in the global grain trade under a controlled registration regime overseen by the Turkish Grain Board. ANKARA, July 30, 2026: Turkey has reopened the door to exports of bread wheat and cracked wheat, ending a suspension that had…
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The Federal Communications Commission has blocked new imports of foreign made humanoid and quadruped robots along with power inverters, a national security move aimed squarely at China’s 85 percent grip on the world humanoid market WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026 – The United States this week banned the import of new foreign made humanoid robots, four…
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Britain locks in 48.5 percent anti-dumping duties on Chinese bicycles until 2029 and extends the net to Malaysia, Pakistan and a wide range of Chinese components, in the most assertive trade defence action of the UK’s post-Brexit era. LONDON, AUG. 2 – The United Kingdom has quietly assembled one of the most comprehensive trade defence…
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Canadian negotiators returned to Washington this week with 21 days left before the first Section 338 tariffs in American history take effect, and with Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly closing the door on the one piece of leverage his loudest provincial allies want him to use OTTAWA, July 31, 2026 Canada’s chief trade negotiators met…
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Canfor and West Fraser reported second quarter losses within a day of each other this week, an Alberta sawmill was condemned, and one producer disclosed the first hard numbers on how the new Section 338 tariffs will hit Canadian wood panels VANCOUVER, July 31, 2026 Two of Canada’s three largest lumber producers reported second quarter…
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Carney rules out energy export curbs as a retaliation tool, narrowing Ottawa’s counter-tariff options with three weeks left before Washington’s 50 per cent Section 338 duties hit roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods RED DEER, Alta., July 30, 2026 – Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken Canada’s single largest source of economic leverage over the…
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Brazil brings the Mercosur-Singapore free trade agreement into force on August 1, securing immediate duty-free treatment for every Brazilian export line entering the city-state and giving the South American bloc its first trade pact with a Southeast Asian nation. BRASILIA, July 30, 2026: Brazil will implement the free trade agreement between the Southern Common Market,…
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The transition window on Washington’s forced labor tariffs closed this week, locking duties of 10 to 12.5 percent onto imports from 60 economies covering virtually all US trade and completing the largest single rebuild of the American tariff wall in decades WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026. The last grace period in the United States’ sweeping new…
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A two year countdown on generic drug tariffs formally began Saturday, giving the manufacturers of nine in ten American prescriptions until August 2028 to build in the United States or face duties of 100 percent, then 200 percent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The most consequential tariff of the week is one that, for now, collects…
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Ottawa has created a Strategic Exports Office inside Global Affairs Canada and named a 14 member corporate advisory council, betting that state backed deal making can double non-U.S. exports before the next American tariff wall goes up on August 19 BRAMPTON, Ontario and OTTAWA, August 2, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canada has moved its…