Tag: Trade Policy
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Carney rules out energy export curbs as a retaliation tool, narrowing Ottawa’s counter-tariff options with three weeks left before Washington’s 50 per cent Section 338 duties hit roughly $20 billion in Canadian goods RED DEER, Alta., July 30, 2026 – Prime Minister Mark Carney has taken Canada’s single largest source of economic leverage over the…
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Brazil brings the Mercosur-Singapore free trade agreement into force on August 1, securing immediate duty-free treatment for every Brazilian export line entering the city-state and giving the South American bloc its first trade pact with a Southeast Asian nation. BRASILIA, July 30, 2026: Brazil will implement the free trade agreement between the Southern Common Market,…
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The Court of International Trade has sustained Commerce’s replacement for the discredited Cohen’s d test, leaving Canadian softwood margins essentially unchanged and validating a methodology that now reaches every antidumping case in the American system NEW YORK / OTTAWA, July 30, 2026 – The United States Court of International Trade has upheld the Commerce Department’s…
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The transition window on Washington’s forced labor tariffs closed this week, locking duties of 10 to 12.5 percent onto imports from 60 economies covering virtually all US trade and completing the largest single rebuild of the American tariff wall in decades WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026. The last grace period in the United States’ sweeping new…
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A two year countdown on generic drug tariffs formally began Saturday, giving the manufacturers of nine in ten American prescriptions until August 2028 to build in the United States or face duties of 100 percent, then 200 percent. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The most consequential tariff of the week is one that, for now, collects…
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Ottawa has created a Strategic Exports Office inside Global Affairs Canada and named a 14 member corporate advisory council, betting that state backed deal making can double non-U.S. exports before the next American tariff wall goes up on August 19 BRAMPTON, Ontario and OTTAWA, August 2, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canada has moved its…
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A Saturday publication of more than 1,400 tariff changes brings duties of up to 86.5 percent on Chinese steel fasteners, plus new measures on specialty plastics and plywood, as Brussels hardens its trade defences while high-stakes talks with Beijing grind on. BRUSSELS, AUG. 2 – Importers across the European Union are spending the first days…
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Brussels locks in definitive anti-dumping tariffs of up to 67.6 percent on Chinese polyamide yarns, capping a twelve-month investigation and forcing a rethink of sourcing strategies across Europe’s textile supply chain BRUSSELS, July 31, 2026. The European Commission this week imposed definitive anti-dumping duties ranging from 60 percent to 67.6 percent on imports of polyamide…
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One day before the steepest pharmaceutical tariffs in modern American history take effect, the world’s largest drugmakers are racing to lock in agreements that would spare them a 100 percent duty on patented medicines WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026. The United States stands one day away from the most consequential deadline in the modern history of…
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Beijing says Washington promised to cap replacement tariffs on Chinese goods at 20 percent, then told US negotiators of its serious concern over a week of new restrictions, as both sides maneuver ahead of a possible September summit WASHINGTON, July 30, 2026 – China’s top economic official told his American counterparts on Thursday that Beijing…