Tag: Trade Policy
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Washington and Beijing move to unwind duties on roughly $60 billion of two-way trade, but the carve-outs tell importers more than the headline number does WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The United States and China have agreed to roll back tariffs on approximately $60 billion of bilateral trade under a reciprocal framework that trade officials on…
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At 12:01 a.m. on September 29 the United States stopped accepting roughly $967 million in Canadian dairy, motorcycles and beverages under a revived 1930 statute. Three days on, the measure has exposed how little protection CUSMA now offers, how exposed single-market exporters have become, and how few good options remain on either side. OTTAWA, October…
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Washington’s Section 338 prohibition on packaged Canadian alcohol took effect September 29, closing a market worth roughly $1.2 billion a year to Canadian distillers, brewers and wineries. Ottawa and the provinces are scrambling with liquidity support while producers discover that a bulk-shipment loophole is dividing the industry into winners and losers. OTTAWA, October 2, 2026…
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Five Reports on Global Trade Measures In this edition 1. Beef Quota Wall China’s safeguard surtax slams shut the world’s largest beef import market for Brazil, pushing the effective duty to 67 percent and forcing a global rerouting of protein trade in the final quarter of 2026 2. Melt Rule Bites The European Union’s melt…
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Indonesia has lifted its October crude palm oil reference price to 1,042.15 dollars a tonne, pushing the combined export duty and levy above 308 dollars and widening the cost gap that has handed Malaysia a structural advantage JAKARTA, October 2, 2026 Indonesia’s government has set the crude palm oil reference price for October 2026 at…
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Beijing has warned that a European instrument modelled on Section 301 would be met with a “strong policy toolbox”, days before the EU trade chief lands in China with a daily trade deficit above one billion dollars on the table BRUSSELS / BEIJING, October 2, 2026 China’s Ministry of Commerce has delivered its sharpest warning…
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At the 2026 AAPA Annual Convention in New Orleans, PTC’s Evan Trapp and Mikenna Richardson shared a practical documentation playbook to help ports and terminal operators keep cargo moving as trade rules change.
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Brussels presses Beijing to accept product by product import quotas as an October deadline closes, reviving an instrument the world trading system outlawed three decades ago BRUSSELS, 29 September 2026 The European Union is pressing China to accept quotas on specific products as the price of avoiding a wave of unilateral trade defence measures, a…
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A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade heard arguments this week on whether the administration’s forced-labor tariffs, covering roughly 99 percent of U.S. imports from 60 trading partners, exceed the authority Congress granted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026. The legal foundation of the United…
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Washington and Beijing publish the first product schedules under a new “30-for-30” tariff reduction framework, covering roughly $60 billion in two-way trade, but the lists arrive without rates, without effective dates, and without the strategic sectors that matter most. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. The United States and China have published the first concrete product schedules…