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Brussels is weighing a flat charge on every company with more than €100 million in EU revenue, in any sector, to avoid Trump's threatened tariffs. A uniform lump sum spread that widely would cost the most, per euro of sales, for the firms nearest the threshold.
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Donald Trump threatened to double what South Korea pays unless Seoul backs an Alaska LNG stake Howard Lutnick put at more than $50 billion. Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, that pressure is landing on allies while Trump keeps a trade truce with China.
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InvoiceTariff's open ruleset charges China-origin laptops 12.5% under the 2026 global Section 301 program despite a Free base rate. Every layer of the stack changes on its own date, so landed-cost code with hardcoded rates falls behind.
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Irish whiskey's 10% US tariff runs to about €45m a year on a €450m export channel. The UK waited 85 days between Trump's whiskey promise and the day the Scotch Whisky Association said zero tariffs were in force.
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Sunday's talks in New York put an AI dialogue next to the tariff agenda before Thursday's White House summit. The concrete piece Treasury described is a channel for flagging national security AI incidents, plus a promise to meet again.
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Altman, Huang and Cook are expected at Trump's 24 September state dinner for Xi, the same three executives who were on the May Beijing trip. What that trip produced is the best guide available to what this one will.
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The OECD says Mexico's chip industry does design, assembly and testing, stopping short of fabrication, so a rules-of-origin threshold would land on parts the corridor cannot make. Washington has not named a percentage.
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Fifty percent duties on roughly $20bn of Canadian goods began on Aug. 22 and Ottawa answers on Sept. 8, so firms with cross-border bills of materials are now pricing a political constraint instead of a negotiation.
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Washington's new 50% duty covers a narrow slice of Canadian imports, but Section 338 carves out nothing. Autos and steel are pricing the next list, not this one.
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Two people put the rate at 7.5%, picked because officials think it will not break the one-year truce or the Xi meeting. Stacked on last month's forced-labor duties, the new layers run 17.5% to 20%.
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Washington declined to renew USMCA on July 1, 2026, replacing it with annual reviews and two bilateral tracks. Mexico's economy minister says he expects parity with whatever Canada signs.
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