Tag: US Tariffs


  • Brazil Squeeze

    Two American tariff actions in a single week have pushed duties on many Brazilian goods to 37.5 percent, as Brasilia weighs its Reciprocity Law, a WTO challenge and the limits of strategic patience. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 No major American trading partner absorbed a harder blow…

  • Next Wave Looms

    The forced labor tariffs were the opening act, not the finale. With an overcapacity probe underway, sectoral security investigations maturing and new legal tools being tested, Washington’s rebuilt tariff machine has a full pipeline for the months ahead. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 The tariff week that…

  • Entry Scramble

    Importers have until 12:01 a.m. Tuesday to enter goods that were already on the water when the new forced labor tariffs took effect, and the fine print of the 431-page action is testing customs teams like nothing since the first China tariff waves. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26,…

  • Pharma Cliff

    Six days before 100 percent tariffs hit patented medicines, three of the world’s biggest drugmakers still have no onshoring deal, generic makers have a new 200 percent deadline of their own, and the US drug supply chain is bracing for the most expensive week in its history WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 The most consequential tariff…

  • World Pushback

    From Beijing to Brasilia, trading partners answer Washington’s forced labor tariffs with a mix of fury, lawsuits and studied restraint, and the choices they make in the coming weeks will determine whether a new trade war ignites WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 Within 24 hours of the United States switching on new tariffs against 60 trading…

  • Tariff Wall 2.0

    A forced labor case gives the White House its most durable tariff wall yet, as new duties on 60 economies replace an expired stopgap and reset the cost of nearly every product entering the United States WASHINGTON, July 25, 2026 The United States began collecting a sweeping new round of import tariffs on Friday, imposing…

  • Tariff Handoff

    The 10 percent global surcharge that rescued the administration’s tariff agenda after the Supreme Court’s IEEPA ruling dies by statute on Friday, and the Section 301 regime built to replace it is arriving with no cap and no clock WASHINGTON, July 21, 2026. The most consequential deadline in American trade policy since February arrives at…

  • Labor Levy Race

    USTR sprints to finalize forced labor tariffs on 60 economies covering 99 percent of US imports, as governments from Ottawa to Phnom Penh rush through new laws in a last-ditch bid for lower rates WASHINGTON, July 18, 2026. The public record is closed, the hearing transcripts are filed, and the countdown is running. The Office…

  • Brazil Hit 25%

    Washington finalizes sweeping Section 301 duties on roughly 3,000 Brazilian products as Brasilia shelves immediate retaliation, promises a WTO challenge and readies a domestic support package WASHINGTON, July 18, 2026. The United States this week finalized a 25 percent tariff on a broad range of Brazilian goods, capping a yearlong Section 301 investigation and opening…

  • US Hits Brazil

    Washington imposes 25 percent Section 301 duties on most Brazilian imports from July 22, sparing coffee and beef but exposing more than 4,000 products, as Brasilia vows reciprocal measures and a WTO challenge By the US Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting Washington, July 16, 2026 WASHINGTON, JULY 16. The United States imposed a 25 percent…