Tag: United States
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A Quebec remanufacturer is pulled back inside the softwood countervailing duty order after a seven year court fight, and the ruling carries a warning for every Canadian lumber trading company WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 A Quebec lumber remanufacturer that spent seven years outside the United States countervailing duty order on Canadian softwood lumber has been…
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America’s 100 percent tariff on patented drug imports is now live for the industry’s biggest importers, and the first full business week under the new regime is testing supply chains, pricing models and Washington’s onshoring bet all at once. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2026 – The most aggressive pharmaceutical trade action in modern American history is…
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Trump invokes rarely used safeguard law to cap quartz countertop imports for four years, giving U.S. producers breathing room and sending fabricators scrambling before an August 15 deadline WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 American importers of quartz surface products have ten days to rethink their supply chains. Under a presidential proclamation signed July 31 and analyzed…
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Washington’s largest-ever expansion of the Uyghur forced labor blacklist takes effect, presuming goods from 43 more Chinese companies are barred from U.S. ports and putting importers of aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton, and tomato products on notice WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 The single largest expansion of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List since the…
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Commerce slaps preliminary antidumping duties on van-type trailers from Canada and Mexico, extending a North American trade fight that has already hit Chinese producers with rates above 130 percent WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has imposed preliminary antidumping duties on van-type trailers and their subassemblies imported from Canada and Mexico, publishing…
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Canada posted a fourth consecutive merchandise trade surplus in June and a record $77.5 billion in exports, but a 1.7 cent slide in the loonie did much of the work, and the tariff arithmetic underneath the headline is far less comfortable OTTAWA, Aug. 5, 2026 – Canada’s trade numbers looked strong on Tuesday. Read in American…
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Ottawa revives a two-tier tariff-rate quota proposal for steel and aluminum as Dominic LeBlanc returns to Washington with two weeks left on the clock before a 50 per cent Section 338 duty lands on roughly US$20 billion of Canadian exports OTTAWA, Aug. 5, 2026 – Canada’s negotiators have put a familiar idea back on the table…
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Two Georgetown scholars who helped dismantle the IEEPA tariffs published a detailed roadmap this week for challenging Trump’s Section 338 duties on Canada, arguing the measures fail the statute’s own offset requirement by a factor of nearly two WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 – The legal case against the tariffs that hit Canadian exporters on Aug. 19 was…
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More than 120 billion dollars in unlawful tariff collections are working their way back to American importers, but an appeals court fight and a wall of filing deadlines could decide who actually gets paid WASHINGTON, August 4, 2026. Nearly six months after the Supreme Court declared the administration’s emergency tariffs unlawful, the largest duty refund…
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One week into the forced labor tariffs covering nearly every US trading partner, the first economic data and the first foreign backlash are arriving at once WASHINGTON, August 4, 2026. The United States has just completed its first full week collecting tariffs on imports from 60 economies under the most sweeping Section 301 action ever…