Tag: Tariffs
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France used the Dublin trade ministers’ meeting to press Washington for a wine and spirits carve-out from the 15 percent transatlantic tariff, invoking the Irish whiskey exemption as precedent and testing the limits of the Turnberry framework DUBLIN, Oct. 24, 2026 France has renewed its campaign for United States tariff exemptions on wine and spirits,…
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Trump concludes the Section 232 wind turbine investigation with a finding of national security threat but no new tariffs, ordering Commerce and USTR into negotiations and giving importers a 180-day window of conditional calm WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2026 President Donald Trump has closed one of the most closely watched national security trade investigations of the…
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Four months after Beijing opened its market duty-free to qualifying African exports, South African shipments to China are up about 25 percent and Pretoria is pressing for the arrangement to be made permanent before the scheme and the country’s American market access both expire PRETORIA, October 23, 2026 China’s zero-tariff treatment for African exports has…
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With the goods deficit running above a billion euros a day, EU trade ministers meeting in Dublin backed extending the hybrid-car template to chemicals, machinery, agri-food and pharmaceuticals, and the Commission named plastics as the sector closest to a safeguard investigation DUBLIN, October 23, 2026 European Union trade ministers ended two days of informal talks…
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Washington rewrites the product scope of its 50 percent Section 338 duties on Canada for the third time in three months, lifting plywood, corrugated boxes and farm packaging equipment out of the net while pulling in valves, carpets, vinyl flooring and municipal waste. The changes take effect October 30, four days before the United States…
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Three separate Section 301 timers on China run out at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 9, and with 17 days left USTR has published nothing that would stop any of them. Importers are pricing both outcomes. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2026 The single largest scheduled change in United States import costs this year is now 17…
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Trump and Sheinbaum both say a bilateral deal is close, but reporting this week places Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick between Mexico and the Section 232 steel and aluminum relief it has spent five months seeking. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2026 Two presidents have now said in the same week that a United States trade agreement with…
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Trump invokes Section 232 on wind turbines but stops short of new duties, ordering Commerce and USTR into negotiations with suppliers and starting a 180 day clock that importers and developers now have to plan around. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2026 President Donald Trump has formally declared that imported wind turbines and their parts threaten United…
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US embassy fact sheet accuses Canadian ministers and premiers of election interference over anti-tariff advocacy, turning Canada’s trade communications strategy into a diplomatic liability OTTAWA, Oct. 23, 2026 – The United States Embassy in Ottawa has published a fact sheet accusing Canadian politicians of attempting to influence the November 3 US midterm elections, naming an…
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Ottawa gives Cleveland-Cliffs 15 days to reverse 500 layoffs or face court action under the Investment Canada Act, in the sharpest test yet of Canada’s foreign investment undertakings OTTAWA, Oct. 23, 2026 – Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has given Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. 15 days to reverse plans to lay off up to 500 workers at Stelco’s…