Tag: Tariff-Rate Quota
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Trump opens a 300,000 metric ton duty free window for imported lean beef, handing Brazil and Paraguay a windfall while American ranchers cry foul WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2026. President Donald Trump this week signed a proclamation that temporarily lifts the steep out-of-quota tariff on up to 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, the…
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USTR’s cotton-linked textile tariff-rate quota reaches its September 1 operational target, forcing importers, US yarn mills, and four Asian supplier nations to confront a new sourcing arithmetic WASHINGTON, September 1, 2026: The most closely watched date on the American textile trade calendar arrived Monday, as the Office of the United States Trade Representative’s long-promised tariff-rate…
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White House opens a 300,000 tonne duty-free window on ground beef as cattle numbers hit a 56-year low, handing importers a narrow and legally unusual opening WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will waive out-of-quota tariffs on as much as 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef…
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Ottawa has revived a proposal to cap Canadian steel and aluminum shipments to the United States in exchange for relief from Section 232 duties, a managed-trade bargain that would trade the principle of open access for the predictability producers say they can no longer find. OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2026 Canadian negotiators have put export quotas…