Tag: Tariffs
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Washington issues its sharpest warning yet over Beijing’s widening export controls on rare earths and strategic minerals, as prices spike, enforcement tightens and both capitals signal they would rather decouple than blink. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2026 – The United States closed the week with a blunt public warning to China over its expanding rare earth…
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Brussels prepares an anti-circumvention investigation into glass fibre mesh routed through the Western Balkans, as Chinese producers stand accused of dodging EU anti-dumping duties BRUSSELS, Aug. 3, 2026 The European Commission is expected to open a formal anti-circumvention investigation into imports of construction materials from several Balkan countries, amid mounting suspicions that Chinese producers are…
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Brasilia escalates its tariff fight with Washington to Geneva, filing WTO dispute DS646 against a combined 37.5 percent duty stack on 6.6 billion dollars in exports and betting that a weakened multilateral system can still deliver leverage and legitimacy. Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk BRASILIA, Aug. 3, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) Brazil has…
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Brussels closes a yearlong trade defence case with definitive anti-dumping duties of 60 percent to 67.5 percent on Chinese polyamide yarn, redrawing the sourcing map for spinners, knitters and apparel brands on three continents. BRUSSELS, Aug. 3, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk The European Union has raised one of the steepest…
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A quiet notice in the August 1 Canada Gazette opens the formal public comment window on a Canada-Türkiye free trade agreement, and buried inside it is a steel quota question Ottawa has not yet answered OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Global Affairs Canada published a notice in Part I of the Canada Gazette on Saturday, August…
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Ottawa imposes a 25 per cent provisional safeguard on imported wood cabinets and vanities, and importers have until August 5 before they even learn how to declare it OTTAWA, August 3, 2026 Canadian importers of kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities returned from the Civic Holiday long weekend to a new 25 per cent surtax that…
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A Geneva dispute panel finds Turkey’s 40 percent surtax on Chinese electric vehicles, related duties on hybrids and an import-licensing regime incompatible with core WTO obligations, handing Beijing a headline victory in case DS629 while an appeal, if Ankara files one, would vanish into a paralyzed Appellate Body. GENEVA, July 31, 2026. A World Trade…
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Two North American industrial unions representing 1.45 million workers have asked U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to abandon the Section 338 tariffs on Canada, arguing that Washington is aiming a protectionist weapon at the wrong country three weeks before the duties take effect PITTSBURGH and OTTAWA, August 2, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – The most…
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Britain locks in 48.5 percent anti-dumping duties on Chinese bicycles until 2029 and extends the net to Malaysia, Pakistan and a wide range of Chinese components, in the most assertive trade defence action of the UK’s post-Brexit era. LONDON, AUG. 2 – The United Kingdom has quietly assembled one of the most comprehensive trade defence…
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Canadian negotiators returned to Washington this week with 21 days left before the first Section 338 tariffs in American history take effect, and with Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly closing the door on the one piece of leverage his loudest provincial allies want him to use OTTAWA, July 31, 2026 Canada’s chief trade negotiators met…