Forced-labor rules, sanctions, due diligence and regulatory deadlines.
An Oct. 26 court filing expands the refund path for roughly $166 billion in struck-down IEEPA duties, while a certified importer class and a Nov. 23 government appeal deadline now decide who waits and who sues.
Retail diesel is above $6 a gallon after a record above $6.50. Analysts say the announced Russian volumes are small against U.S. demand and the red-dye diesel order is short on specifics, so freight budgets should assume elevated fuel costs.
$6.179/gal DOE/EIA average retail diesel, Oct. 12
The Section 301 action that replaced the expired 10% global surcharge in July adds 10% or 12.5% to imports from most trading partners, with wide exemptions procurement teams should be using.
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Medium and large companies placing covered products on the EU market must show they are deforestation-free and legally produced, with geolocation data from origin. Recent changes put most of the burden on the first company to place goods on the market.
Dec. 30, 2026 EUDR applies to medium and large companies
Proposed rules published Sept. 18 rewrite FAR parts that govern how agencies buy commercial products, run competitions and choose contract types. With 36 parts now proposed, contractors and federal buyers should review drafts during the 30-day comment window.
Sept. 18, 2026 second set of proposed rules published
The U.S. declined to extend the agreement on July 1, so the three countries now review it every year. The pact stays in force until 2036, but auto rules of origin, steel and aluminum are open for negotiation.
July 1, 2026 first six-year joint review
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President Trump's Oct. 23 proclamation under Section 338 pulls plywood, paper, machinery and refrigeration equipment off the 50% duty list and adds carpets, vinyl flooring, paints, valves and chest freezers, effective for entries on or after Oct. 30.
50% Section 338 duty on covered Canadian goods
The Oct. 22 proclamation closes the 232 probe into turbine imports without new levies, directs Commerce and USTR to negotiate, and flags foreign-made inverters as a cybersecurity risk to the grid.
Oct. 22, 2026 proclamation signed after the Section 232 turbine investigation
DHS published its FASCSA exclusion and removal order in the Federal Register on Oct. 20, reaching any product built on a DeepSeek implementation and imposing inquiry and reporting duties on contractors at every tier.
Oct. 20, 2026 Federal Register publication of the DHS exclusion and removal order (91 FR 66346)
The Spanish family-owned operator is buying the Rotterdam-based multimodal group outright, with the deal set to close Jan. 1, 2027 and combine 21 maritime terminals, five rail terminals and more than 500 trucks.
At TechEd in Berlin, SAP paired its agent-build stack with agent-governance controls — the observability and audit layer a Pathlock survey says most agent adopters still lack.
The FOMC paused its tightening cycle on Oct. 28 in a 10–2 vote, saying inflation remains elevated, while fed funds futures and the dot plot point to another hike in December that will keep supplier financing and capital costs tight.
One week after reserving substrate, packaging and testing capacity with six suppliers, Nvidia and Oracle announced plans on Oct. 27 to expand OCI superclusters to multi-gigawatt scale — a signal that AI hardware scarcity will persist into 2028.
The Postal Service announced Oct. 26 that a weekly fuel surcharge tied to EIA diesel and jet fuel prices will hit four domestic package services from January 2027, with percentages published only three to five days before each change.
The London startup's Chalfen-led round backs agents that find suppliers, place purchase orders and pay them for consumer brands, following Freehand's $75M and Magentic's $18M raises this year.
