Tag: Supply Chains

  • Dumping Finding

    Japan’s trade and finance ministries have preliminarily concluded that hot-dipped galvanized steel from China and South Korea was dumped at prices far below home-market levels, and they have extended the probe to December 12 while weighing duties. TOKYO, July 27, 2026: Japan moved a decisive step closer to imposing anti-dumping duties on one of the…

  • China Truce Bid

    Beijing races to lock in a 30 billion dollar reciprocal tariff cut with Washington before Xi Jinping travels to the United States, even as it blacklists European firms and fortifies its own farm sector. BEIJING, July 26, 2026 China spent the past week practicing a brand of tariff diplomacy that few governments would attempt on…

  • Lula’s WTO Bet

    Brazil answers Washington’s 25 percent Section 301 tariff with legal patience instead of counter-tariffs, staking its export economy on a Geneva dispute system the United States itself has spent years hobbling. BRASILIA, July 26, 2026 Brazil spent this weekend doing something almost no major economy has managed in the current round of tariff wars: holding…

  • EU Sanction Jab

    The Council’s 21st Russia sanctions package puts an unprecedented cohort of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong firms on the EU blacklist, jolting a commercial relationship already frayed by duties on electric cars, tyres, steel and even duck meat. BRUSSELS, July 26, 2026. The Council of the European Union adopted its 21st package of restrictive measures…

  • Beijing Hits EU

    China bans dual-use exports to Rheinmetall and 13 other European entities in a swift, list-for-list reprisal against the EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package, pulling rare earths, photonics and defence supply chains deeper into a widening trade confrontation. BEIJING, July 26, 2026. Two days after China’s Ministry of Commerce placed 14 European Union entities on its…

  • Labour Tariff

    Washington’s new 10 per cent Section 301 duty over forced-labour enforcement takes effect on Canadian goods, but a CUSMA carve-out spares most exports even as Ottawa insists there is no basis for the measure. OTTAWA, July 27, 2026. A new United States tariff aimed at forced labour in global supply chains is now in force…

  • Labour Levy

    A new 10 percent American duty framed as a crackdown on forced labour catches Canada in a net cast over more than sixty nations, and Ottawa says there is no basis for it OTTAWA, July 24, 2026 The Trump administration has opened a new front in its trade offensive against Canada, imposing a 10 percent…

  • 10% Labour Duty

    Washington converts a stalled Section 301 forced-labour probe into hard tariffs on 60 economies, hitting Canada with a 10 percent charge that Ottawa disputes even as continental-compliant goods are spared and a broader 50 percent threat looms behind it. OTTAWA, July 25, 2026. The United States has turned a long-running forced-labour investigation into a fresh…

  • Tariff Fallout

    The new 50 percent duties land on an economy already bruised by a year of trade conflict, while steel, aluminium, autos and softwood lumber remain trapped in a separate limbo the latest measure does nothing to resolve. TORONTO, July 22, 2026 The 50 percent duties President Donald Trump imposed on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian…

  • Sectors Brace

    From Niagara wineries to Quebec cement plants and the hockey equipment lines of small-town Ontario, Canadian industry begins a 30-day sprint to outrun a 50 percent American tariff, while importers and brokers scramble to reprice the border TORONTO, July 21, 2026 The phone calls started before the proclamations were even posted. Within hours of the…