Tag: Trade Policy
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Tokyo enacts provisional duties of 29.2 to 55.3 percent on hot-dipped galvanized steel from South Korea and China, a rare deployment of trade remedies by the world’s third largest steel producer and the latest sign that Asia’s long tolerance of cheap steel imports is running out. TOKYO, August 13, 2026. Japanese customs officers began collecting…
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Ottawa has revived a proposal to cap Canadian steel and aluminum shipments to the United States in exchange for relief from Section 232 duties, a managed-trade bargain that would trade the principle of open access for the predictability producers say they can no longer find. OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2026 Canadian negotiators have put export quotas…
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Fresh government trade data released Monday show the average U.S. tariff burden fell to 7.1 percent in June, even as the administration finished rebuilding its global tariff wall on a new legal foundation that courts are already testing. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 The most detailed picture yet of America’s post Supreme Court tariff landscape emerged…
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The public comment window closed Monday in the U.S. Trade Representative’s Section 301 investigation into Germany’s pharmaceutical pricing, hardening battle lines in a novel trade fight that could put tariffs on one of the world’s most sensitive industries. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2026 A first of its kind American trade investigation into how a close ally…
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Caught between a new Section 301 forced-labour tariff already raising costs on 70 percent of its US-bound exports and a looming 100 percent penalty tied to Russian oil, New Delhi is betting that patience, diversification and an unsigned trade deal can carry it through the tightest trade squeeze it has faced in years. NEW DELHI,…
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POSCO formally contests Japan’s first major anti-dumping duties on Korean steel, opening a high-stakes trade confrontation between two US allies as a far larger probe into hot-rolled and cold-rolled products looms in the background. SEOUL, Aug. 11, 2026 — South Korea’s flagship steelmaker POSCO has formally challenged the provisional anti-dumping duties Japan imposed last week…
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Dominic LeBlanc’s third negotiating round in three weeks leaves Canada eight days to head off an unprecedented 50 per cent tariff on nearly US$20 billion of exports, and for the first time CUSMA compliance offers no shelter By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Canada’s minister responsible for Canada-United States trade,…
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A 50 per cent tariff on roughly 52 Canadian dairy classifications takes effect August 19 over how Ottawa hands out quota licences, turning an obscure administrative dispute into the most consequential test yet of Canadian supply management By Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk OTTAWA, August 12, 2026 Of the three American tariff proclamations set…
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New data show the average US effective tariff rate fell to 7.1 percent as Customs certifies roughly 100 billion dollars in refunds from the invalidated IEEPA tariffs, the largest duty repayment operation in American history WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 Six months after the Supreme Court struck down the emergency tariffs that defined the opening year…
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Comment window closes on product exclusions from the forced labor tariffs now covering imports from 60 economies, as importers push toward a September 22 hearing at USTR WASHINGTON, August 11, 2026 The deadline arrived at 11:59 p.m. Monday night. Companies seeking relief from the sweeping Section 301 forced labor tariffs, the 10 to 12.5 percent…