Eight weeks into the EU’s hardened steel import regime, quotas are running dry, importers are stuck at customs, and Brussels faces a Monday deadline to define the traceability rules that will govern the next phase. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The European Commission has less than a week to finalize one of the most consequential pieces…
India’s first duty-free sugar import window in nearly a decade is already being rewritten on the fly, as tumbling domestic prices threaten to leave half the quota unused. NEW DELHI, August 25, 2026 Five days after New Delhi threw open its first duty-free sugar import window since the 2017-18 season, the program is simultaneously working…
Four months into provisional tariff cuts, the EU-Mercosur pact is moving real goods across the Atlantic while its legal fate rests with judges in Luxembourg. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The EU-Mercosur trade relationship enters the final week of August in a condition that has no clean precedent in modern trade policy: tariffs are falling, quotas…
A four million tonne steel quota at 25 per cent, aluminum halved, autos cut to 15 per cent and lumber left dangling. Inside the metals and vehicles package Ottawa had all but signed, and the reasons Canadian industry told the Prime Minister to walk away from it. TORONTO, AUGUST 24, 2026 For about 72 hours…
Trump waives out-of-quota tariffs on 300,000 tonnes of ground beef for 90 days, drawing fire from ranchers and Republican allies as food prices dominate the midterm landscape WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2026 By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day suspension of out-of-quota tariffs on up to 300,000 metric…
India throws open a rare duty-free window for 1 million tonnes of raw sugar imports, suspending a 100 percent tariff wall to tame record domestic prices before the festival season. NEW DELHI, Aug. 23, 2026. India, the world’s largest consumer of sugar and one of its most protected sugar markets, has cracked open its tariff…
A 50 per cent tariff on roughly 52 Canadian dairy classifications takes effect August 19 over how Ottawa hands out quota licences, turning an obscure administrative dispute into the most consequential test yet of Canadian supply management By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Of the three American tariff proclamations set…
Canadian producers tell Ottawa that supply management is not currency as Washington talks accelerate toward an August 19 tariff wall OTTAWA, August 9, 2026 – Canada’s dairy producers have drawn the sharpest public line yet against the federal government’s negotiating strategy with the United States, warning that any further loosening of the supply management system…
Ottawa revives tariff rate quotas on steel and aluminum exports in a bid to buy relief from Section 232 duties, even as officials dispute how close the two sides really are with 12 days left before a new 50 percent tariff wave lands. OTTAWA, Aug. 7, 2026. Canadian negotiators have put export quotas on steel…
Trump invokes rarely used safeguard law to cap quartz countertop imports for four years, giving U.S. producers breathing room and sending fabricators scrambling before an August 15 deadline WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 American importers of quartz surface products have ten days to rethink their supply chains. Under a presidential proclamation signed July 31 and analyzed…