Tag: United States

  • Import Ban Day

    Thirteen days remain before packaged Canadian beer, wine and spirits, along with whey, molasses, non alcoholic beer and motorcycles above 800 cc, are excluded from entry into the United States altogether. Customs brokers are racing to clear inventory, trade counsel are parsing a transitional rule, and Canadian distillers are confronting a market closure rather than…

  • Summit Pledges

    Ottawa closed its first Canada Investment Summit with nearly $500 billion in commitments, a corporate tax deduction it says will give Canada the lowest effective rate on new business investment in the G7, and a plan to sell long term concessions on the country’s four largest airports. The pitch is a tariff strategy by another…

  • Duty Stack Hits

    Washington’s revised Section 338 proclamations took force on September 15, layering 50 per cent duties on top of existing Section 232 metals tariffs for the first time and pushing the combined additional rate on some Canadian steel and aluminum structural goods to 75 per cent. Motorboats, furniture, lighting and printing paper joined the list. Cement,…

  • Barrier Docket

    USTR has opened the comment window for the 2027 National Trade Estimate Report, adding a duty evasion and transshipment category and asking filers to price the export gains at stake. With Section 301 now the administration’s load-bearing tariff authority, the docket is the year’s most consequential paperwork. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the…

  • Labor Tariffs

    USTR brought representatives of more than 50 economies to Washington to learn how to build forced-labor import bans, the enforcement arm of a Section 301 tariff program that now touches 99.4 percent of American imports. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative convened representatives of more than 50 trading partners on…

  • Truce Talks

    Washington and Beijing weigh reciprocal tariff cuts on roughly $30 billion in farm goods, energy and manufacturing inputs as Xi Jinping prepares for a Sept. 24 White House visit, with the survival of the one-year trade truce riding on the outcome. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026. American and Chinese negotiators are discussing a package of mutual…

  • Duties Stack Up

    Revised U.S. Section 338 tariff lists take effect today, adding Canadian cheese, structural steel, aluminum, furniture and ATVs while dropping road salt and cement, and for the first time letting 50 per cent duties stack on top of Section 232 metals tariffs Ottawa, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk As of…

  • Tin Duty Lands

    Commerce sets a 66.61 percent preliminary countervailing duty on Chinese tin mill steel, finds critical circumstances, and orders retroactive cash deposits as the second trade case over tinplate in three years reaches a decisive stage WASHINGTON, September 15, 2026. The United States Department of Commerce on Monday imposed a preliminary countervailing duty of 66.61 percent…

  • Red Lines Set

    Carney says Canada is ready to return to the table with Washington after Trump predicts a deal “fairly soon,” but Ottawa insists sovereignty, culture and trade-deal freedom are not negotiable Toronto, September 15, 2026 | Peacock Tariff Consulting Canada Trade Desk Three weeks after Canada walked away from the negotiating table and the United States…

  • Cylinder Case

    Commerce formally opens antidumping investigations of linear hydraulic cylinders from five countries, with alleged dumping margins reaching 744.85 percent, after an unusual industry polling exercise and warnings about an unusually aggressive scope WASHINGTON, September 15, 2026. The United States Department of Commerce has formally launched one of the broadest trade remedy actions of the year,…