Tag: Trade Compliance

  • India Duty Net

    New Delhi names three Japanese, Malaysian and Thai producers in a circumvention probe on plastic pipe resin and extends a chemical duty for five more years, as India shifts from policing origins to policing routes NEW DELHI, September 17, 2026. India’s trade remedy authority has opened an anti circumvention investigation naming three specific exporters in…

  • EU Widens CBAM

    European Parliament votes to extend the carbon border levy from raw steel and aluminium into 457 finished and semi-finished product categories, pushing the bloc’s carbon tariff deep into fasteners, wire, springs and household goods STRASBOURG, September 17, 2026. The European Parliament has voted to extend the European Union’s carbon border levy to 457 downstream product…

  • EU Steel Clock

    Brussels trade officials reviewed implementation of the bloc’s new steel regime on 15 September as importers face a two week countdown to compulsory melt and pour declarations, an 18.3 million tonne duty free ceiling and a 50 percent out of quota tariff. Brussels, 16 September 2026 European Union member state trade officials gathered at the…

  • Import Ban Day

    Thirteen days remain before packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, along with whey, molasses, non alcoholic beer and motorcycles above 800 cc, are excluded from entry into the United States altogether. Customs brokers are racing to clear inventory, trade counsel are parsing a transitional rule, and Canadian distillers are confronting a market closure rather than…

  • Barrier Docket

    USTR has opened the comment window for the 2027 National Trade Estimate Report, adding a duty evasion and transshipment category and asking filers to price the export gains at stake. With Section 301 now the administration’s load-bearing tariff authority, the docket is the year’s most consequential paperwork. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the…

  • Labor Tariffs

    USTR brought representatives of more than 50 economies to Washington to learn how to build forced-labor import bans, the enforcement arm of a Section 301 tariff program that now touches 99.4 percent of American imports. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative convened representatives of more than 50 trading partners on…

  • 301 Labor Levy

    A new Federal Register notice signals the next stage of Washington’s sweeping forced labor tariff program, as importers from 60 economies absorb duties of 10 to 12.5 percent and foreign governments press their objections By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, September 13, 2026. The Office of the United States Trade Representative moved…

  • Refund Rush

    Seven months after the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs, more than $128 billion in refund claims are moving through Customs, a Wall Street market in refund rights is booming, and a Federal Circuit appeal could still upend it all By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, September 11, 2026 The largest…

  • Surtax Day One

    Canada’s United States Surtax Order (2026) is now live across more than 700 tariff items, and the compliance architecture behind it is proving as consequential for importers as the 15, 25 and 50 per cent rates themselves. OTTAWA, September 11, 2026 The largest single tranche of Canadian counter-tariffs since the trade conflict with Washington began…

  • Metal Net Grows

    Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…