Tag: Tariffs


  • Delhi PV Probe

    India’s trade remedies authority pushes forward a sweeping set of anti-dumping investigations into imported solar encapsulants from China, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, tightening the screws on the supply chains that feed the world’s third largest solar market. NEW DELHI, AUG. 2 – India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies moved its high-stakes anti-dumping investigations into…

  • China Cap Row

    Beijing says Washington promised to cap replacement tariffs on Chinese goods at 20 percent, then told US negotiators of its serious concern over a week of new restrictions, as both sides maneuver ahead of a possible September summit WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026 – China’s top economic official told his American counterparts on Thursday that Beijing…

  • Cable Duty Case

    The Canadian International Trade Tribunal opened a final injury inquiry into Chinese building wire on Thursday after border officers issued preliminary determinations, putting provisional duties on a product that goes into almost every house Canada builds OTTAWA, July 31, 2026 The Canadian International Trade Tribunal initiated a final injury inquiry on Thursday into the dumping…

  • Cabinet Duty

    Ottawa imposes a 25 per cent provisional safeguard surtax on imported wood cabinets and vanities, opening a 200 day window while the Canadian International Trade Tribunal decides whether a global import surge is destroying a domestic industry already boxed in by American duties OTTAWA, August 2, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canada has turned a…

  • Benzoate Blow

    Brussels imposes provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 116.4 percent on Chinese sodium benzoate, handing a victory to complainant Lanxess and opening a new front in an increasingly crowded EU-China trade defence docket. BRUSSELS, July 31, 2026 The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of between 57.6 percent and 116.4 percent on imports of…

  • Asia Door Opens

    Brazil activates the Mercosur-Singapore free trade agreement, securing immediate duty-free entry for 100 percent of its exports to the city-state and giving the South American bloc its first operational trade pact in Southeast Asia. BRASILIA, July 31, 2026. Brazil this week completed the final step to bring the Mercosur-Singapore Free Trade Agreement into force, capping…

  • Ankara EV Blow

    A World Trade Organization panel has found that Turkey’s steep additional duties on Chinese electric vehicles, together with tariffs on some hybrids and a discriminatory import licensing regime, violate global trade rules. The decision hands Beijing a notable legal victory, but it lands in a dispute settlement system that no longer has a functioning appeals…

  • 21 Days Left

    LeBlanc and Charette wrapped two days of Washington meetings this week with Section 338’s August 19 cliff approaching and the President publicly declaring he has no interest in the trade framework Canada is trying to save OTTAWA, July 30, 2026 – Canada’s chief trade envoys returned from Washington this week having spent two days negotiating…

  • 100% Drug Duty

    Section 232 tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals took effect Friday for the industry’s largest importers, opening a high stakes test of whether a wall of duties can pull drug manufacturing back to American soil. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The steepest tariff ever applied to the American medicine cabinet is now being collected at United States ports…

  • New 301 Regime

    The in-transit grace period has closed on Washington’s forced labor tariffs, locking in duties of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 economies as Congress stirs and the courts loom WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 The last escape hatch closed at one minute past midnight on Monday. As of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on July…