Tag: Trade Policy
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Washington swaps an expiring global levy for a Section 301 ‘forced labour’ tariff, hitting Canada at 10 percent while sparing CUSMA-compliant goods Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Ottawa. Filed July 24, 2026. OTTAWA, July 24, 2026. The United States moved on Thursday to impose a fresh set of tariffs on dozens of trading partners,…
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Carney tells premiers Canada will do ‘whatever it takes’ as Washington’s 50 percent tariff salvo pushes the question of retaliation back to the center of the table Peacock Tariff Consulting, Canada Trade Desk. Charlottetown. Filed July 24, 2026. CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 2026. Canada will do “whatever it takes” to defend its workers…
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China shipped fewer rare earths in the first half of 2026 but earned dramatically more for them, and customs figures reported Monday reveal how Beijing’s licensing wall, backed by a new enforcement campaign, is converting geology into leverage over Europe, Japan and the wider world. BEIJING, July 20, 2026. China is selling fewer rare earths…
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India and the United Kingdom close the first trading week of their landmark economic pact with duty-free cargo moving through ports on both sides, new origin rules holding at the border, and exporters rewriting their price lists. NEW DELHI, July 19: The India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the most sweeping trade pact New…
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India’s trade remedies authority has extended anti-dumping duties on Chinese seamless steel tubes and stretched the comment clock in its hot rolled steel probe against China, Japan and Russia, the latest reinforcements in a widening wall of trade defenses around the world’s second largest steel market. NEW DELHI, July 18. India’s steel trade defense wall…
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Two months after unveiling what it called broadly balanced and positive preliminary outcomes from the China-US economic and trade consultations, China’s Commerce Ministry is converting a framework of tariff ceilings, twin councils, and agricultural breakthroughs into facts on the ground, and the rest of the trading world is recalibrating. On Friday evening Beijing time, China’s…
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Five days before a 50th anniversary summit in Beijing, the European Union’s campaign to unblock China’s rare earth export licensing backlog has become the defining test of a trade relationship strained by a record deficit and a month of tit-for-tat measures. BRUSSELS, July 19: When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council…
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President Lula rejects Washington’s 25 percent Section 301 tariff as groundless, invoking Brazil’s Reciprocity Law and returning to the WTO as exporters brace for the July 22 start date and a possible 12.5 percent forced labor surcharge on top. Brazil closed the week on a war footing in trade policy, converting President Luiz Inacio Lula…
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Sixty economies mount a last-ditch defense as USTR faces a Monday deadline on forced labor duties covering 99 percent of United States imports By Monday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative must complete the most expansive Section 301 investigation ever undertaken, one that found every major American trading partner deficient on forced labor…