Tag: Tariffs
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A planned 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff would push US duties on Chinese goods to the very ceiling of the trade truce, just as new export data shows Beijing’s shipping machine running hotter than ever ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit WASHINGTON, September 9, 2026 Two weeks before President Donald Trump is scheduled to welcome…
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With the 100 percent tariff on patented pharmaceuticals set to bite on September 29, importers race the clock while drugmakers weigh onshoring deals and pricing concessions WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. Three weeks from today, the United States will begin collecting a 100 percent tariff on imported patented pharmaceuticals and their active ingredients from most of…
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Washington readies Phase Two semiconductor duties as Seoul and Taipei bargain for relief and markets brace for higher electronics prices WASHINGTON, September 8, 2026. The Trump administration’s plan for a second, far broader round of semiconductor tariffs hardened into the dominant story in global trade over the past several days, as negotiators from South Korea…
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Three weeks before the September 29 deadline, 100 percent tariffs on patented drug imports loom for every company without an onshoring deal, and three of the industry’s biggest names are still exposed WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The pharmaceutical industry has entered the final three-week countdown to the broadest drug tariff in American history. On September…
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New Delhi says the trade agreement with Washington is negotiated and ready, but it will stay unsigned until the United States grants tariff terms better than India’s rivals receive NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The long-promised bilateral trade agreement between the United States and India has arrived at a peculiar standstill: the deal is done,…
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Commerce Secretary puts semiconductor tariff Phase Two on the record at the G20, and the exemption math threatens laptops, servers, consoles and the AI buildout itself WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The Trump administration’s long-signaled second wave of semiconductor tariffs moved from anonymous deliberation to on-record policy this week, after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed on…
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Two months into the joint review, North America’s trade pact is running on two tracks: real progress with Mexico, open confrontation with Canada, and a September deadline week that will test both WASHINGTON, September 6, 2026 The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement remains fully in force, but the review process meant to secure its future has split…
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New Delhi says the long-awaited US bilateral trade agreement will not be finalized until Washington offers Indian exporters a tariff rate better than their competitors get WASHINGTON and NEW DELHI, September 6, 2026 The final act of one of the Trump administration’s most consequential trade negotiations has stalled on a single word: preferential. India will…
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Brasilia rewrites its tariff schedule on two fronts at once: a midnight deadline decides whether the 20 percent tax on small e-commerce parcels returns, while Gecex retools duties on hundreds of capital goods and opens a new anti-dumping front against China BRASILIA, September 8, 2026 Brazil’s trade policy reached an unusually consequential crossroads this week,…