Tag: Trade Negotiations
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With the Appellate Body still unable to hear a single case and three panel rulings appealed into the void last year, members are routing around Geneva through an interim arbitration arrangement that now counts 31 participants and is still growing. Geneva, 16 September 2026 The World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement system entered another autumn on…
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Ottawa closed its first Canada Investment Summit with nearly $500 billion in commitments, a corporate tax deduction it says will give Canada the lowest effective rate on new business investment in the G7, and a plan to sell long term concessions on the country’s four largest airports. The pitch is a tariff strategy by another…
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Washington and Beijing weigh reciprocal tariff cuts on roughly $30 billion in farm goods, energy and manufacturing inputs as Xi Jinping prepares for a Sept. 24 White House visit, with the survival of the one-year trade truce riding on the outcome. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. American and Chinese negotiators are discussing a package of mutual…
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India and China open first structured trade talks in years, targeting a 99 billion dollar deficit, tariff frictions and supply chain bottlenecks as Asia’s two giants test a commercial detente NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 India and China have formally begun discussions to address their long-festering bilateral trade grievances, including one of the world’s largest…
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India-EU free trade agreement draft text opens India’s car, wine and farm markets through carefully rationed tariff-rate quotas, resetting the terms of engagement between two of the world’s largest trading powers NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 India and the European Union have pulled back the curtain on the most consequential market-access bargain either side has…
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Carney says Canada is ready to return to the table with Washington after Trump predicts a deal “fairly soon,” but Ottawa insists sovereignty, culture and trade-deal freedom are not negotiable Toronto, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk Three weeks after Canada walked away from the negotiating table and the United States…
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Eleven-nation bloc closes New Delhi summit with a 140-paragraph declaration condemning unilateral tariffs, doubling down on local-currency trade and setting a reform agenda for a fractured global trading system NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 The BRICS group of emerging economies concluded its 18th summit in New Delhi on Saturday, September 13, with a unanimous, 140-paragraph…
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India’s landmark free trade agreement with the European Union has entered its final approval stage in Brussels, setting up sweeping tariff cuts across autos, machinery, steel, textiles and pharmaceuticals. NEW DELHI, Sept. 14, 2026 India’s most consequential trade agreement in a generation moved decisively toward the finish line over the weekend, as the European Commission…
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Mark Carney’s cabinet wrapped a two-day retreat in the Rockies on Friday having chosen restraint over a fresh round of retaliation. The prime minister called Washington’s newest measures “relatively modest,” Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc confirmed back-channel conversations with Jamieson Greer and Howard Lutnick are continuing, and ministers spent as much time on interprovincial trade barriers…
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Speaking in Dublin, the U.S. president says an agreement with Canada could come “fairly soon” and insists Ottawa wants one “very badly.” But no talks are formally scheduled, no Canadian concession has been announced, and every date on the calendar between now and October points toward further escalation rather than relief. Ottawa, September 13, 2026…