Tag: Trade Negotiations
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Washington and Beijing publish reciprocal product lists covering $60 billion in trade, handing importers of toys and household goods their first broad tariff relief of the Trump second term while leaving the hardest questions on rare earths unanswered WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2026 – The United States and China released matching product lists on Monday that…
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Washington and Beijing publish the product schedules behind last week’s summit deal: 1,619 American export lines and 77 Chinese categories, with more than nine in ten moving to most favored nation treatment. Semiconductors, electric vehicles and batteries are nowhere on it. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2026 – The United States and China released reciprocal product lists…
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A finished Section 301 report recommending a 7.5 percent duty on Chinese goods is sitting in a drawer at USTR until after Thursday’s Trump-Xi meeting, converting an unpublished tariff into Washington’s most valuable bargaining chip WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2026 The most consequential US tariff of the autumn is the one that has not been announced.…
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Southeast Asia keeps a tariff-slashing pact with the Gulf Cooperation Council on its agenda as a feasibility study heads for a year-end deadline and Indonesia races to conclude its own bilateral deal. JAKARTA, September 28, 2026 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is keeping a prospective free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council on…
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Brussels reports that goods exports to preferential partners rose by 250 billion euros in 2025 and grew at more than twice the rate of overall trade, offsetting the collapse of the Russian market. BRUSSELS, September 28, 2026 The European Commission published its sixth annual report on the implementation and enforcement of European Union trade and…
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Piyush Goyal confirms the India and New Zealand free trade agreement enters into force on 20 October, delivering duty-free access for the whole of India’s export basket and a twenty billion dollar investment commitment NEW DELHI, 21 September 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Trade Desk India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal confirmed on Monday…
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Carney heads to the United Nations with no meeting booked with Washington, eight days before the first outright American import bans on Canadian goods take effect OTTAWA, September 21, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney left for the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday with no meeting scheduled with President Donald Trump or…
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Washington and Beijing agree to cut tariffs on roughly $30 billion of trade in each direction, routing the cuts through a newly created U.S.-China Board of Trade and sparing toys, car seats and holiday goods on one side, farm products and medical devices on the other. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2026 – The United States and China…
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Bessent says the Busan framework now runs to January 10 as Xi’s state visit opens in Washington, keeping the fentanyl tariff at 10 percent and the maritime Section 301 case suspended while Beijing tightens chemical export licences. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2026 – The United States and China have pushed their trade truce two months down…
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Washington and Beijing close in on energy and farm tariff relief as Xi Jinping prepares for a White House summit, with China’s 15 percent duty on American liquefied natural gas the centerpiece of a package that could cover roughly 30 billion dollars of goods on each side WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2026 – The United States and…