Tag: Trade Negotiations
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USTR holds back its Section 301 excess capacity findings on China days before a Washington summit, leaving importers with a 7.5 percent question mark and a truce that expires on November 10 By the US Trade Desk WASHINGTON, September 20, 2026. The Office of the United States Trade Representative has postponed the release of its…
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After Ursula von der Leyen offered Canada an unprecedented associate membership in the European Union, President Trump warned of very heavy tariffs on Europe if he judges the gesture hostile, injecting fresh uncertainty into a transatlantic trade relationship that has been unsettled since February WASHINGTON, SEPT. 19, 2026 President Donald Trump has threatened to impose…
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Washington holds back the Section 301 excess capacity report that would recommend a 7.5 percent duty on Chinese goods, preserving leverage days before a Trump and Xi summit and leaving importers to budget for a tariff that exists only on paper WASHINGTON, SEPT. 19, 2026 The Trump administration is expected to withhold the release of…
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Product-level allocations published under the India and European Union free trade agreement show steel quotas roughly 300,000 tonnes below what New Delhi already holds under Brussels’ new import regime, and Indian mills are asking their government to reopen the numbers. NEW DELHI, September 20, 2026 The steel tariff-rate quotas negotiated under the free trade agreement…
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Vietnam’s president heads to New York with as many as 29 commercial agreements in hand, an American goods deficit that has overtaken China’s, and three separate Section 301 proceedings hanging over the relationship. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2026 Vietnamese President To Lam travels to New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly carrying an…
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Washington holds back the Section 301 structural excess capacity determination and its recommended 7.5 percent duty on Chinese goods until after the Sept. 24 Trump and Xi meeting, leaving sixteen economies and thousands of importers waiting on a decision that was supposed to land this week. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2026 The Trump administration is expected…
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Brussels fixes 8 to 9 October in Beijing as the moment China must show “credible” movement on a trade gap running at more than one billion euros a day, and signals that failure will trigger the bloc’s harder instruments BRUSSELS, 18 September 2026. The European Union has put a date and a test on its…
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Ottawa courts Brussels for a “unique alliance” as Washington threatens Europe with heavy tariffs. For Canadian exporters, the question is how much of the pivot is real and how fast any of it arrives. STRASBOURG, FRANCE, AND OTTAWA, SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Prime Minister Mark Carney used a speech to the European…
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Thai negotiators worked through the night with USTR ahead of a proposed leader-level call this week, racing to lock in a reciprocal trade agreement before a separate Section 301 overcapacity investigation lands on one of America’s largest Asian suppliers. BANGKOK and WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2026 Thailand’s trade negotiators spoke with the Office of the United…
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India warns of consequences for the bilateral relationship and for global energy markets after Congress clears a bill that could expose more than 100 billion dollars of Indian exports to punitive US duties, with a trade agreement still unsigned. NEW DELHI and WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2026 India delivered its formal response on Thursday to the…