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Five Key Metrics from First-Week August 2025: Tariff rollouts, de minimis gone, pharma hikes, rail merger, Apple’s U.S. investment plan—decoded

The first week of August 2025 has blown past every post-pandemic benchmark for supply-chain turmoil. Washington’s new “reciprocal” tariff grid now blankets nearly 70 nations with 10–41 percent duties (Canada is hammered with 35 percent, India jumps to 50 percent, China’s 80 percent threat looms for August 12).

Aug 7

BRICS Under Fire: August 1st Tariffs and Freight Rate Collapse Threaten Trade

With Washington confirming 1 August as the tariff go-live date—not merely a deadline—the trade chessboard has shifted from bluff to execution. Formal rate letters are already landing (25 % for Japan and Korea), Treasury warns that non-deal partners will see pre-truce levies “boomerang” back, and a surprise U.S.–Vietnam accord shows how frenzied the final bargaining has become.

Jul 8

Tariff Clock Ticking: Vietnam Scores, Will July 9 Trigger the Next Freight Shock?

Between June 24 and July 3, 2025, global logistics entered a new phase of “permanent volatility.” With President Trump holding firm on the July 9 tariff deadline, Vietnam clinched a last-minute exemption while Europe and Japan scramble to avoid 25–50 percent duties. Trans-Pacific spot rates whipsawed as shippers front-loaded cargo, port strikes in Sweden pushed global on-time arrivals below 60 percent, and congestion fees soared.

Jul 3