international trade

On Sunday (June 14th), President Trump announced a peace deal with Iran via a Truth Social post: The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all! I hereby fully [...]

Happy World Trade Week! Never heard of it? You’re not alone. I’ve only peripherally heard of it, and I write a blog about international shipping. I don’t think we’ve ever [...]

Halted Strikes on Iran Today could have been a day of war escalation. President Trump posted on Truth Social that there was a military attack on Iran scheduled, but he held it off at the request [...]

Appeals Court Stays Ruling Against Trump’s 10% Tariff Last week, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled against the Trump Administration’s usage of Section 122 of the Trade Act of [...]

Do you know what country is the number one trading partner for the U.S.? It’s not China. It’s not Canada…. 2026 marks the third consecutive year that Mexico is the United [...]

IEEPA Tariff Refunds in Process In its filing with the Court of International Trade this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) declared importers made 47,315 CAPE submissions for tariff [...]

Now’s the time for shippers to get back the money they spent in IEEPA-related tariffs. All-Ways reported in an email blast that “more than $166 billion in tariff refunds are now [...]

While the Trump Administration was at its height of unleashing new tariffs and tariff hikes last year, the toy industry saw sales growth. The way the industry handled imports, tariffs, and their [...]

With the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, Iran has reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping traffic through it is reportedly at a trickle. According to a Reuters article by [...]

Steel, Aluminum, Copper Tariffs Tariff changes on steel, aluminum, and copper went into effect yesterday (April 6th). President Trump issued a proclamation late last week, modifying Section 232 [...]

Oil Prices Outlook Oil has always been a large factor in international shipping costs. The Iran War, with the closure of the Straight of Hormuz, effectively cut off shipping access through the [...]

Yesterday (Monday, March 24th), the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) said no to carriers requesting waiver of the 30-day notice period before hitting shippers with fees related to the Iran War. [...]

Summit Delay Request Many refer to the current trade deal with China as a trade truce. Shippers would be forgiven for thinking of it as tenuous after the tension of escalating tariffs of trade [...]

Immediately after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the president shifted to Section 122 of the Trade [...]

Trump Orders Government to Cover Persian Gulf Shipping In Tuesday’s blog about the impacts of the Iran War on international shipping, we brought up insurance, specifically marine insurers [...]

The two things shippers seem to want to know the most about in light of the Supreme Court’s recent tariff decision is what will happen with tariffs moving forward and what about refunds. [...]

Let the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision against President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs begin. Today, as the halt of IEEPA tariff [...]

Big news dropped: The Supreme Court announced a 6-3 ruling today that President Trump’s usage of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to pronounce sweeping tariffs [...]

Competition on the waters of international shipping looks to be shrinking again as the world’s fifth-largest ocean freight carrier, Hapag-Lloyd, made a buyout deal yesterday to acquire the [...]

We don’t usually post on Fridays, but the U.S. and Taiwan inked a trade deal yesterday, so you get a bonus mini-post. Frank Fang wrote a nice, full article on the trade deal for the Epoch [...]