The Trump administration’s repeated attempts to find legal justifications for broad tariff powers have created costly uncertainty and complexity for US businesses, consumers, and taxpayers.
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Posted inLatin America, Trade Policy, United States
US threatens 25% tariffs on Brazil over digital, ethanol disputes
The United States on Monday proposed imposing 25 per cent tariffs on most imports from Brazil, escalating a year-long trade probe into Latin America’s largest economy while sparing two of its most valuable exports to the American market.
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CSIS: EU CBAM and implications for Indonesia
The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism is likely to disadvantage developing countries such as Indonesia by imposing higher trade barriers on carbon-intensive exports due to less stringent domestic climate policies.
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CSIS: A practical approach to the RCEP general review
Current US trade measures represent not merely a temporary disruption but part of a broader structural shift toward a hybrid geoeconomic order in which multilateral rules coexist with geopolitical competition.
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CSIS: Strategic diversification as Indonesia’s foreign economic policy
Indonesia is pursuing a calibrated form of economic security that manages concentrated dependencies without abandoning its tradition of openness or resorting to autarky.
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RIETI: Human rights due diligence is a process of behavioral change
Compliance-driven approaches to human rights due diligence risk producing only formalistic, paperwork-driven responses that fail to deliver genuine improvements in working conditions across supply chains.
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Cato: Trump administration will seek to hold tariff refunds
The Trump administration is appealing a court order to refund $166 billion in tariffs collected under IEEPA, which the Supreme Court struck down as illegal, in order to retain revenue it was never entitled to collect.
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Atlantic Council: EU is edging toward its own Section 301
Faced with growing Chinese manufacturing overcapacity and an inadequate trade defense toolkit, the EU is moving toward developing a more assertive, Section 301-style tariff instrument to address state subsidies and structural industrial imbalances.
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Lowy: Three Countries Could Unravel WTO Fish Deal
The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies marks a historic breakthrough for marine environmental protection and multilateral cooperation, offering significant benefits to Pacific Island nations dependent on tuna fisheries.
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Lowy: RCEP’s Moment to Matter
The 2027 RCEP General Review represents a critical opportunity to transform the world’s largest trading bloc into a meaningful anchor against geoeconomic fragmentation in the Asia-Pacific.