Tag: Tariffs

  • EU Steel Gate

    Europe’s new steel wall hardens on 1 October as melt and pour proof becomes binding and a second quota tranche opens against near total exhaustion of the first BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 Europe’s steel importers have roughly 48 hours left before the most consequential customs paperwork requirement in a generation takes legal effect, and the…

  • Solar Stockpile

    Commerce and Customs have capped polysilicon and solar component imports through Dec. 4 to stop buyers from front-running the Section 232 tariff and minimum import price regime, with new importers limited to 12 kilograms of polysilicon a week and brokers warned they could lose their licenses. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. Federal trade officials have moved…

  • Court Tests 301

    A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade heard arguments this week on whether the administration’s forced-labor tariffs, covering roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, exceed the authority Congress granted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026. The legal foundation of the United…

  • China Deal List

    Washington and Beijing publish the first product schedules under a new “30-for-30” tariff reduction framework, covering roughly $60 billion in two-way trade, but the lists arrive without rates, without effective dates, and without the strategic sectors that matter most. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. The United States and China have published the first concrete product schedules…

  • EU China Clash

    With Sefcovic bound for Beijing and a December package of trade instruments in preparation, Brussels is weighing how far it is willing to go BRUSSELS, September 30, 2026 / European officials have begun describing October as make-or-break for the bloc’s commercial relationship with China, a characterisation that until recently would have been dismissed as rhetorical.…

  • EU Melt Rule

    Brussels switches on melt-and-pour origin tracing as the 50 percent out-of-quota duty bites, redrawing the map of who may sell steel into Europe BRUSSELS, October 1, 2026 / The European Union’s steel import regime crossed its most consequential threshold on Wednesday night, as the melt-and-pour origin requirement written into Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 took effect and…

  • Lobby Lockout

    Peter Navarro told Canadian lobbyists to get off K Street and warned against interference in the midterms. Mark Carney laughed, took note, and declined to escalate. Behind the theatre sits a serious question about how Canada argues its case in Washington when the usual channels are closed. VANCOUVER, October 1, 2026. The most consequential Canadian…

  • Steel Squeeze

    Stelco is idling finishing lines in Hamilton and cutting 350 jobs in the same week that small Canadian fabricators say Ottawa’s own quota wall has priced them out of Canadian steel. The protection is working at one end of the chain and failing at the other. HAMILTON, Ontario, October 1, 2026. Canada’s steel policy is…

  • Ban Takes Hold

    Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on nearly US$1 billion of Canadian dairy, alcohol and motorcycles came into force on September 29, converting a tariff wall into a closed door and leaving Canadian exporters with no duty-paid workaround. OTTAWA, October 1, 2026. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, September 29, United States Customs and Border Protection…

  • Delhi Duty Wave

    India opens seven anti-dumping investigations against Chinese goods in a single day, spanning antibiotics, tyre resins, lift rails and polyurethane chemistry, as the bilateral deficit tops 112 billion dollars NEW DELHI, September 30, 2026 India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies issued seven separate notifications dated September 29 initiating anti-dumping investigations into imports originating in China,…