Tag: Trade Policy

  • China Gap Levy

    The White House moves toward a 7.5 percent Section 301 overcapacity tariff that would lift total new duties on Chinese goods to the 20 percent truce ceiling just weeks before the planned Xi-Trump summit in Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2026 – The Trump administration is moving toward imposing a new 7.5 percent tariff on imports…

  • Grain Duty Cut

    Moscow trims wheat and corn export duties for early September and weighs a full moratorium through year-end as Black Sea attacks choke Russia’s grain gateway and prices sink below 100 dollars a tonne By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting MOSCOW, Aug. 31, 2026. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry announced on Friday, August 28, a fresh reduction…

  • SACU Steel Wall

    Southern African Customs Union imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on Chinese coated flat-rolled steel as Pretoria escalates its defence of a battered domestic mill sector By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting PRETORIA, Aug. 31, 2026. Provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of coated flat-rolled steel from China took effect across the Southern African Customs Union on…

  • EU TiO2 Probe

    Brussels opens an absorption reinvestigation into Chinese titanium dioxide, testing whether exporters have swallowed anti-dumping duties and setting the stage for even higher tariffs on a pigment that colours everything from paint to paper By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting BRUSSELS, Aug. 31, 2026. The European Commission has opened a rare absorption reinvestigation into…

  • WTO Backs EU

    Dispute Settlement Body adopts panel report largely upholding EU anti-dumping duties on Indonesian fatty acid, handing Brussels a rules-based win while ordering a narrow fix to its dumping calculations By the International Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting GENEVA, Aug. 31, 2026. The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body on Friday formally adopted the panel report in…

  • China Cap Gap

    Washington is preparing a 7.5 percent overcapacity tariff on Chinese goods, engineered to hit the exact ceiling of the bilateral truce, weeks before Xi Jinping arrives for a September 24 summit that will decide whether the truce survives By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The…

  • Chip Tax Redux

    The White House is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would reach laptops, servers and gaming consoles, and may scrap January’s data center exemptions, setting up a collision between reshoring policy and the AI buildout By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. The Trump…

  • Drone Duty Dawn

    With 100 percent Section 232 tariffs on imported drones set to bite September 3, importers, public safety agencies and an entire trade show full of buyers confront the most aggressive drone trade action in US history By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting | August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, August 31, 2026. In three days,…

  • EAEU Alloy Cut

    The Eurasian Economic Commission has carved niobium-aluminium master alloy out of its common tariff schedule and set the import duty at zero through October 2028, a small line item that opens a wide window onto how Russia and its customs union partners are managing their dependence on one of the world’s most concentrated critical mineral…

  • Grain Duty Dip

    Russia cut its floating export duties on wheat and corn for the week of Sept. 2 to 8 and held barley at zero, a small mechanical adjustment that lands in the middle of the worst Black Sea logistics crisis Russian grain trade has faced. MOSCOW, Sept. 1. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry lowered the floating export duties…