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Mexico Avoids Tariffs On Steel Used In Energy Sector
Monday, November 9, 2020 - 3:58pm | 513Read More...The Mexican government has agreed to strictly monitor exports of certain steel components to ensure they don't contain low-price steel from countries outside North America, according to the United States Trade Representative's (USTR) office. In exchange, Mexico will be protected from any future U....
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Tesla Sues Trump Administration Over Tariffs On Chinese Imports
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 9:18pm | 261Read More...Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) wants duties imposed on its imports from China declared unlawful and is demanding a refund in a lawsuit it filed Monday, Bloomberg reported. What Happened: The Elon Musk-led company named the United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as a defendant in its...
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Breaking News: US Drops Canada Aluminum Tariffs
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 2:38pm | 132Read More...The United States is dropping its 10% tariffs on certain Canadian aluminum imports, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced on Tuesday. The move came on the same day that Canada planned to announce a slate of countermeasures in response to the tariffs. President Donald Trump...
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Fintech Focus For September 2, 2020
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 7:21pm | 2275Read More...Quote Of The Day: Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. - Mother Teresa Fintech Movers: Two community leaders from Oakland, California, with backgrounds in real estate and impact investing launched a new investment platform Tuesday to provide capital...
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Canada Ready To Impose Retaliatory Tariffs On US Goods
Friday, August 7, 2020 - 3:54pm | 303Read More...Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland warned the U.S. in a statement on Friday that Canada will impose tariffs equivalent to those imposed by the U.S. Freeland denied that Canadian aluminium undermines U.S. national security, called the measures "unwarranted and...
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Breaking News: Trump Reimposes Aluminum Tariffs On Canada
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 5:21pm | 111Read More...President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has reimposed a 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum imports. Speaking at a Whirlpool factory in Ohio, Trump said he moved to reinstate the tariffs in response to the Canadian government's failure to prevent the aluminum industry from "flooding" the U.S....
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Martini Tax: US Considering $3.1B In New Tariffs On UK, European Goods
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 10:01am | 247Read More...The United States Trade Representative is weighing new tariffs on $3.1 billion in exports from France, Germany, Spain and the U.K. The USTR made a disclosure in a filing stating the additional list of products, which contains 30 tariff subheadings with an approximate value of $3.1 billion. The...
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Could Coronavirus Shortages Lead To Sec. 232 Tariffs For The Medtech Industry?
Monday, April 6, 2020 - 5:14pm | 1093Read More...Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act got a lot of attention in the early Trump years when the president invoked the passage to restrict steel and aluminum imports. The act allows officials to tax foreign products that are considered to be weakening national security. The coronavirus...
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China's 'Regionalization' Agreement To Benefit US Poultry Exports
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 2:00pm | 516Read More...The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has reached a "regionalization" agreement with China for the safe trade of poultry products during disease outbreaks. "This agreement will help our farmers and ranchers by maintaining export...
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US Lets Up On Import Tariffs For Chinese Medical Supplies
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 1:17pm | 478Read More...The White House's trade negotiating office assured U.S. medical supplies importers that it will not impose import tariffs on Chinese products such as ventilators, oxygen masks and nubilators during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. "Throughout the process of administering its Section 301 action...
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Appeals Court Finds Trump's 25% Steel Tariff Constitutional
Monday, March 2, 2020 - 10:50am | 552Read More...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday upheld a decision by the Court of International Trade that found President Donald Trump did not violate the U.S. Constitution when he imposed a 25% tariff on steel imports in March 2018. In June 2018, the Alexandria, Virginia-based...
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Coronavirus: Great For In-House Entertainment
Friday, February 28, 2020 - 10:34am | 910Read More...As the pandemia is keeping cities on lockdown, many companies are taking a direct hit to their sales. Others who depend on China for manufacturing are facing supply chain issues. But, there are two sides of each coin. First of all, due to the well-known US-China trade war that is more ‘old...
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USMCA Boosts Demand For Industrial Space Near Border
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 5:31pm | 567Read More...A Boston-based real estate firm recently purchased a 24-acre industrial park some 3 miles from the Port of Houston and 200 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. It is the latest in a string of transactions involving industrial, logistics and warehouse space in the Texas-Mexico border region in recent...
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Senators Urge Trade Sanctions For Russian Election Interference
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 12:33pm | 478Read More...Democratic Senate Leader Charles Schumer, along with Sens. Sharrod Brown and Robert Menendez, urged the White House to proceed with imposing sanctions against Russian government agencies and officials, and even President Vladimir Putin himself, based on recent U.S. intelligence reports that Russia...
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A Dive Into The Dip: 2019 Company Closure Analysis
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 9:57am | 69Read More...Image by Albert Dezetter from Pixabay
