Who actually pays a tariff
The importer of record pays the duty to Customs at the border; who ultimately bears the cost depends on contracts, supply chains, and how much prices can move.
Priya Vaithilingam
USMCA talks enter a third round
US and Mexican negotiators opened a third round of bilateral discussions in July 2026, with rules of origin as the prize and auto supply chains as the stakes.
Priya Vaithilingam
White House trims some metals tariffs to 15%
A July 20, 2026 proclamation lowers certain steel, aluminum, and copper rates from 25% to 15%, continuing the shift toward product-by-product rates.
Owen Blackwood
How a trade case moves from petition to duty
An antidumping case runs through the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission on a fixed clock, with provisional duties possible within about seven months.
Owen Blackwood
How antidumping duties actually get set
A single trade petition triggers two separate federal reviews, and only one of them decides the tariff rate.
Monica CummingsAnalysis & Opinion
How a product gets added to steel tariffs
How a Section 232 tariff gets imposed
Industrial policy is now bipartisan default
Subsidies, tariffs, and procurement preferences survived a court ruling and an election cycle — the argument is only over the knobs.
Steel tariffs sit at 50 percent a year on
Section 232 steel and aluminum duties doubled to 50 percent in June 2025 and still cover imports that fed auto plants, appliances, and construction.
Manufacturing
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Trump Cuts Steel Tariffs To 25%
Owen BlackwoodNew metals tariff framework runs through 2027
Proclamation 11032 sets differentiated rates for an expanded product list through December 31, 2027, replacing one-rate-for-all with a negotiated ladder.
Owen BlackwoodTrade
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Two agencies decide every US dumping case
Priya VaithilingamPort fees quietly reroute the fleets
Fees on Chinese-built vessels touch every carrier calling at US ports, and the cost shows up in freight rates and fleet orders.
Priya VaithilingamPolitics
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Shutdowns now blindfold the statisticians
Khalid OkonkwoCongress audits the tariff machine
Oversight of customs collection sounds procedural — until the money at stake is nine digits and the courts just broke the meter.
Khalid OkonkwoEconomy News
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Small packages lose their tariff exemption
Priya VaithilingamTariff prices arrive slowly, then leave
The consumer-price mechanics of tariffs are a level shift, not permanent inflation — and the exit is as gradual as the entry.
Priya VaithilingamBusiness News
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A strong dollar squeezes small exporters
Monica CummingsUncertainty is the tax on top of the tax
Companies can price a tariff; they cannot price a tariff that might change — and the wait itself costs capital expenditure.
Monica CummingsTrade Flow Dashboard
Explore the data · Source: U.S. Census Bureau