Tag: US Tariffs


  • Refund Rift

    Treasury has pushed roughly 100 billion dollars of struck-down emergency tariffs back to importers. A growing line of consumer class actions is now asking whose money it was in the first place By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. Roughly 100 billion dollars in refunded tariff duties has been transferred to…

  • 232 Net Widens

    Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more metal derivative articles, from aluminum powder and brass instruments to tanker trailers and filled steel cylinders, with public comments due August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has proposed extending Section 232 metals tariffs to 14 additional categories…

  • 232 List Grows

    Commerce proposes sweeping 14 more product categories into the Section 232 metal tariffs, from brass instruments and fire extinguishers to cranes and trailers, giving importers until August 27 to object WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The Commerce Department has proposed adding 14 more categories of products to the Section 232 tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper,…

  • Polysilicon Hit

    The White House prepares a hybrid price floor and tariff regime on the raw material behind every chip and solar panel, aiming at China’s 93.5 percent grip on global supply while U.S. solar developers brace for higher costs WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The Trump administration is preparing to impose a combination of minimum import prices…

  • States Sue USTR

    A 25-state coalition asks the Court of International Trade to strike down the Section 301 forced labor tariffs, calling the levies on 60 trading partners an unlawful revival of a tariff regime the Supreme Court already rejected WASHINGTON, August 6, 2026 The legal siege around the Trump administration’s rebuilt tariff wall tightened this week, as…

  • Pharma Duty Day

    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…

  • Quartz Quota

    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…

  • Trailer Duties

    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…

  • Delhi Deal Push

    India vows to keep negotiating with Washington after a new 10 percent American tariff, wagering that its fresh trade pacts with the United Kingdom and the European Union give it the leverage to wait for balanced terms. NEW DELHI, July 26, 2026: India will keep negotiating with the United States toward a bilateral trade agreement…

  • Lula’s WTO Bet

    Brazil answers Washington’s 25 percent Section 301 tariff with legal patience instead of counter-tariffs, staking its export economy on a Geneva dispute system the United States itself has spent years hobbling. BRASILIA, July 26, 2026 Brazil spent this weekend doing something almost no major economy has managed in the current round of tariff wars: holding…