Trade
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 · July 27, 2026
Trade: Markets and Commerce
Trade examines the rules that govern goods crossing borders: tariff schedules and exclusions, rules of origin, customs classification, export licensing and controls, and the agreements behind them. Explainers work each change through to landed cost on a named product. Useful for sourcing managers, trade counsel and manufacturers with international suppliers.
Trade examines the rules that govern goods crossing borders: tariff schedules and exclusions, rules of origin, customs classification, export licensing and controls, and the agreements behind them. Explainers work each change through to landed cost on a named product. Useful for sourcing managers, trade counsel and manufacturers with international suppliers.
Trade
Port 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 Vaithilingam · July 5, 2026
Trade
New Section 301 duties land at 10 and 12.5
Additional tariffs of 10% and 12.5% took effect in 2026 under the unfair-trade statute — a slower, sturdier vehicle than the invalidated emergency path.
Priya Vaithilingam · June 12, 2026
Trade
Nearshoring moved the map, not the model
Supply chains did not come home — they got shorter, and Mexico and Vietnam hold the evidence.
Priya Vaithilingam · May 20, 2026
Trade
Chip export controls are industrial policy by list
The rules that decide which semiconductors cross which borders are written as technical thresholds — and they steer billions in investment.
Priya Vaithilingam · April 27, 2026