Desk
Editorial Staff
The Policy Desk covers how federal and state policy is made and what it means for business. Articles under this byline draw on public records, official data and published reporting, and are checked against their sources before publication.
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The European Commission set a €2 handling fee on low-value parcels from outside the EU, expected to apply from 1 November 2026 on top of the €3 duty already in force.
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The Chancellor's first Budget, on 28 October, will come with a fiscal forecast. Business rate cuts are confirmed; bank, energy and capital gains changes are not.
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China's central bank is weighing a switch from its seven-day rate to the overnight interbank repo rate as its main policy benchmark, Reuters reported on 19 October 2026.
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Singapore's advance third-quarter GDP rose 5.4% from a year earlier, and the Monetary Authority kept its currency band unchanged on 14 October 2026.
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The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI moves stand-alone high-risk obligations to December 2027 and product-embedded systems to August 2028, and adds new bans from December 2026.
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The FTC and USDA opened a joint public inquiry on October 7, 2026, into farm equipment makers and dealers. Comments are due December 7, 2026.
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A Treasury Inspector General report found 52 IRS employees made 86 suspicious accesses to high-profile taxpayers' records, exploiting system gaps that let search functions bypass monitoring.
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Federal Reserve finalizes rules on September 30, 2026 to smooth volatility in bank stress-test capital requirements and add public transparency to model changes.
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The Congressional Review Act lets a simple majority in Congress strike down recent federal regulations, with a lookback window giving new majorities more time to act.
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The Fed opens public comment on how banks can issue stablecoins backed by Treasury securities and cash. The rules create a formal pathway to market entry but impose strict operational constraints.
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Congress must pass 12 appropriations bills each year.
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The Administrative Procedure Act requires agencies to publish proposals, accept public comment, analyze economic effects, navigate White House review, and prepare for court challenges.
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The FTC has made deceptive enrollment and cancellation practices a priority through enforcement actions and rule-making, even as courts block key provisions. Here's what companies must do.
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Every imported product gets classified by HTS code, which determines its base rate. Then presidents and regulators can add extra tariffs for national security, trade disputes, or other reasons.
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The Federal Reserve's interest rate decisions and forward guidance set the pace for corporate borrowing and hiring plans.
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Federal rules costing $100 million or more must clear a cost-benefit test.
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Five September 8 proclamations ban some Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycle imports outright and widen tariffs on dozens of other goods.
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None of the 12 full-year fiscal 2027 spending bills has passed. A fight over defense versus nondefense funding is holding up the Senate.
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A 2026 Treasury rule permanently killed a federal requirement that millions of companies disclose their owners, ending a fight that ran through Congress, the courts and two administrations.
