Tag: Trade Policy


  • Carney Counters

    Ottawa calls Trump’s new 50 percent duties a breach of the continental trade pact but holds its fire on retaliation, even as premiers press for a dollar-for-dollar response. OTTAWA, July 22, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned President Donald Trump’s newly announced 50 percent tariffs as the latest in a series of unilateral American…

  • Sec 338 Duties

    Washington revives a dormant 1930 statute to place 50 percent duties on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian goods, from wine to hockey sticks, in the sharpest escalation of the cross-border trade war this year. WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 President Donald Trump has reached back nearly a century into American trade law to strike one of…

  • EU Rift Deepens

    A nearly one billion dollar antitrust fine against Google draws a sharp warning from the US Trade Representative, who says Brussels is putting the Turnberry tariff truce at risk WASHINGTON, July 24, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting, US Trade Desk The fragile tariff truce between the United States and the European Union came under its…

  • 60-Nation Levy

    The United States replaces its expiring stopgap duties with sweeping Section 301 tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on 60 trading partners, citing their failure to ban goods made with forced labor WASHINGTON, July 24, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting, US Trade Desk New American tariffs of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60…

  • Mexico Rod Duty

    Mexico City opens a second sunset review of its decade-old anti-dumping duty on Chinese steel wire rod at the urging of Deacero and Ternium, keeping the 49-cent-per-kilogram levy alive while Latin America hardens its steel defences Peacock Tariff Consulting | International Trade Desk | July 24, 2026 MEXICO CITY, July 24, 2026. Mexico has formally…

  • UK Bike Duties

    London formalises anti-dumping duties of up to 48.5 percent on Chinese bicycles and parts through August 2029, extending one of the longest-running trade defence measures in the world and closing the book on its post-Brexit review Peacock Tariff Consulting | International Trade Desk | July 24, 2026 LONDON, July 24, 2026. The United Kingdom this…

  • China EU Curbs

    Beijing blacklists 14 European entities, including Rheinmetall and a Polish university, one day after Brussels sanctions Chinese firms over Russia, in the fastest tit-for-tat escalation yet between the two trading giants Peacock Tariff Consulting | International Trade Desk | July 24, 2026 BEIJING, July 24, 2026. China struck back at the European Union with unprecedented…

  • China Zero Duty

    Beijing says 63 countries now enjoy zero-tariff access to the world’s second-largest import market, as customs chiefs pledge to widen the net through 2030 in a pointed counterpoint to Western protectionism Peacock Tariff Consulting | International Trade Desk | July 24, 2026 BEIJING, July 24, 2026. China has now extended zero-tariff treatment to imports from…

  • India-EU Pact

    New Delhi and Brussels lock in the largest trade agreement either side has ever concluded, slashing duties on 96.6 percent of EU goods lines and resetting the map for global exporters Peacock Tariff Consulting | International Trade Desk | July 24, 2026 NEW DELHI, July 24, 2026. India and the European Union sealed their long-delayed…

  • $28B At Risk

    Trump’s Section 338 order sweeps cosmetics, paper, chemicals and hockey sticks into a 50 percent tariff, and Canadian manufacturers warn of a rocky road Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Toronto. Filed July 24, 2026. TORONTO, July 24, 2026. A new American tariff order threatens roughly 28 billion Canadian dollars in annual exports and, for…