New York Fed research puts the pass-through rate at about a quarter, says tariffs added 2.9 points to goods inflation, and finds the full effect takes a year to arrive NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2026. Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York have put a number on one of the most contested questions…
August goods and services gap jumps 13.7 percent to $105.6 billion as record imports of semiconductors and capital equipment outrun the tariff wall, forcing a hard question about what the duties are actually buying WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2026 The American trade deficit widened to $105.6 billion in August, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the…
The ITC sets an expedited schedule that points toward five more years of duties on Chinese intermodal chassis, with no importer willing to argue the other side WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 Five years after the United States imposed antidumping and countervailing duties on intermodal chassis from China, the equipment that carries nearly every ocean container…
Commerce buys twenty more days to decide whether the U.S. corrugated industry really stands behind petitions that could put triple-digit duties on imported pizza boxes WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has given itself an extra twenty days to decide whether to launch antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into corrugated die-cut cardboard…
Commerce opens a circumvention inquiry into Chinese aluminum composite panels, asking whether a thin plastic core is enough to escape duties that have stood since 2019 WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened a circumvention inquiry into aluminum composite panels produced in China, a step that could pull a widely used…
Bayer committed 2.2 billion dollars to an Ohio drug plant on Thursday, three days after Washington extended 100 percent pharmaceutical tariffs to the rest of the industry. The timing was not a coincidence, and it is not the last announcement of its kind. NEW ALBANY, Ohio, October 3, 2026 Bayer AG said Thursday it will…
US Customs and Border Protection opens the third and hardest phase of its emergency-tariff refund program on October 6, unlocking an estimated 11.4 billion dollars in finally liquidated entries. Only importers who sued can walk through the door. WASHINGTON, October 3, 2026 The largest customs refund operation in American history enters its final and most…
Commerce stacked preliminary antidumping and countervailing determinations across graphite electrodes and air compressors in a 48-hour span, with retroactive liquidation reaching back to May WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The Department of Commerce published a cluster of preliminary trade remedy determinations on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 that will impose cash deposit obligations on importers of…
Phase two of the Section 232 pharmaceutical action reaches mid-sized and small drugmakers, while a late specialty carve-out spares rare disease products from twenty designated jurisdictions WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The second and far broader phase of the United States Section 232 action on patented pharmaceuticals took effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Sept.…
Washington and Beijing move to unwind duties on roughly $60 billion of two-way trade, but the carve-outs tell importers more than the headline number does WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2026. The United States and China have agreed to roll back tariffs on approximately $60 billion of bilateral trade under a reciprocal framework that trade officials on…