Tag: US Tariffs

  • Mexico Metals

    Talks to cut United States duties on Mexican steel, aluminum and vehicles have stalled inside the administration over Commerce Department resistance, leaving roughly half a trillion dollars of annual trade waiting on a rate decision as the USMCA joint review approaches. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2026 A tariff agreement between the United States and Mexico that…

  • Beef Tariff Row

    A 90 day suspension of out of quota duties on imported ground beef has pulled down cattle futures and set the major producer groups against the White House, with Brazil the clearest beneficiary and the midterm elections 11 days away. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2026 The political cost of the administration’s decision to open a tariff…

  • Turbine Talks

    Trump concludes the Section 232 wind turbine investigation with a finding of national security threat but no new tariffs, ordering Commerce and USTR into negotiations and giving importers a 180-day window of conditional calm WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2026 President Donald Trump has closed one of the most closely watched national security trade investigations of the…

  • Oil Tariff Halt

    Trump suspends the Graham Act’s 100 percent secondary tariffs, handing India and China a reprieve while Treasury Secretary Bessent blames Europe for refusing to share the burden WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 19, 2026 President Donald Trump has suspended the tariff and sanctions machinery of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, pulling back…

  • Mexico Deal Jam

    Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s resistance to cutting the 25 percent auto and 50 percent metals tariffs has stalled a bilateral deal Mexico City believed was close, complicating the USMCA review calendar WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 19, 2026 A bilateral tariff agreement that Mexican officials described as weeks away has run into opposition from inside the American cabinet, according…

  • Copper Limbo

    With the White House still undecided on refined copper duties and a January 1 phase-in date approaching, traders have turned cautious on a market that spent eighteen months pricing a tariff that never came WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 19, 2026 The copper market entered this week with an unusual problem: a tariff that has been expected for…

  • India Deal Lag

    New Delhi says the first tranche of its trade agreement with Washington is finalised and in legal drafting, but will not switch it on until the US settles its Section 301 tariffs and India is satisfied it holds an edge over competing suppliers. NEW DELHI and WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2026 – India will not operationalise…

  • Duty Fraud Net

    A $280 million transshipment complaint against a California tile importer and its chief executive, filed weeks after the Justice Department made trade fraud a corporate enforcement priority, signals that customs penalties are becoming the sharp end of US tariff policy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2026 – The Justice Department is pursuing more than $280 million from…

  • Pulp Duty Set

    Commerce finalizes dumping margins of 6.50 percent on Brazilian and 6.51 percent on Norwegian high purity dissolving pulp, plus a 9.37 percent subsidy rate on Brazil, coming in far below the margins petitioners alleged. One methodological issue in the record addresses how invalidated IEEPA tariffs are treated in the dumping calculation. WASHINGTON, October 16, 2026…

  • Solar Duty Vote

    US International Trade Commission finds India, Indonesia and Laos solar cell imports injured domestic producers, clearing the last hurdle to antidumping and countervailing duty orders that stack combined rates above 200 percent for some exporters. Commerce is expected to publish the orders on November 2. WASHINGTON, October 16, 2026 – The United States International Trade…