Tag: Trade Disputes
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American negotiators are refusing to lower softwood lumber duties that now sit near 45 percent, sources say, turning Canada’s oldest trade grievance into the loudest political fight of the final hours before Wednesday’s tariff deadline. VANCOUVER, August 18, 2026 As Canadian and American negotiators race toward Wednesday’s 50 percent tariff deadline, one file has emerged…
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Beijing’s provisional anti-dumping duties on American and Mexican pecans have upended one of the fastest-growing corners of the global nut trade, pushing total charges on US shipments to roughly 86 percent and dragging Mexico’s booming orchard economy into the crossfire of great-power commerce. By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting BEIJING, August 17, 2026 China…
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China’s provisional anti-dumping deposits of up to 54.3 percent on American pecans and up to 51.6 percent on Mexican pecans turn a niche nut trade into the newest, and most revealing, front in the widening tariff standoff between Beijing and Mexico City. BEIJING, August 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce has fired the latest shot…
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Brazil activates its Economic Reciprocity Law for the first time, opening a formal Camex procedure that could lead to countermeasures against 25 percent US tariffs even as Brasilia insists the door to negotiation remains open. BRASILIA, August 16, 2026 Brazil set in motion the most consequential trade defense mechanism in its modern history on Thursday,…
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Mexico’s Economy Secretariat is scrambling to reverse China’s provisional anti-dumping duties on pecans before they harden into definitive measures, with a 10-day response window already running. MEXICO CITY, August 14, 2026. Mexico’s federal government has opened a determined diplomatic and procedural counteroffensive against China this week, working to prevent Beijing’s newly imposed provisional anti-dumping duties…
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China’s formal request to join Brazil’s WTO challenge to Washington’s forced-labor tariffs has turned a bilateral complaint into a test of whether the multilateral trading system can still discipline unilateral trade measures at all. GENEVA, August 12, 2026, China has formally asked to join the World Trade Organization consultations that Brazil opened against the United…
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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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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…
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Washington finalizes sweeping Section 301 duties on roughly 3,000 Brazilian products as Brasilia shelves immediate retaliation, promises a WTO challenge and readies a domestic support package WASHINGTON, July 18, 2026. The United States this week finalized a 25 percent tariff on a broad range of Brazilian goods, capping a yearlong Section 301 investigation and opening…
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Brasília activates its Economic Reciprocity Law and prepares a fresh WTO challenge after Washington confirms 25 percent Section 301 duties on most Brazilian goods from July 22. BRASILIA, July 16, 2026: Brazil answered Washington’s newly confirmed 25 percent tariff on most of its exports with a two-track counteroffensive on Thursday, formally opening the procedures to…