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EU finance ministers have abolished the tax-free “de-minimis” rule and will charge a flat €3 on every parcel under €150 entering the bloc from 1 July 2026 until a fuller customs overhaul arrives.
On 12 Dec 2025 the 9th Circuit upheld Judge Gonzalez Rogers’ contempt finding against Apple but struck her blanket ban on external-payment commissions, ordering the district court to set a “reasonable” fee instead.
On 11 December 2025 Mexico’s Congress approved a law raising duties to as high as 50 % on 1,463 product lines from countries without a free-trade pact, to take effect 1 January 2026.
On 11 Dec 2025 the FOMC trimmed its policy range by 25 bp for a third straight meeting but, in an unusually fractious 9-3 vote, signalled no further moves until fresh data arrive and pencilled in only one cut for 2026.
Within a day of Mexico’s Senate green-lighting steep new duties on 1,400+ goods from countries without trade pacts, Beijing publicly warned the move was protectionist and demanded a rollback.
On 8 Dec 2025 Paramount Skydance bypassed Warner Bros. Discovery’s board and offered shareholders $30 per share in cash—valuing WBD at $108.4 billion—to derail the $72 billion cash-and-stock sale the board had already accepted from Netflix three days earlier.
On 10 Dec 2025, Microsoft unveiled a four-year plan starting 2026 that will pour $17.5 billion into Indian hyperscale data centers and AI skilling, the centerpiece of a wider $23 billion global AI capital push announced the same day.
At the 10 Dec 2025 Smbhav Summit in New Delhi, Amazon promised a further $35 billion for Indian AI, cloud and logistics projects, raising its end-of-decade investment target in the country from $40 billion already spent to $75 billion.
For the first time, SpaceX has opened talks with banks for a June–July 2026 stock debut that would raise at least $25 billion and value the company north of $1 trillion.
On 9 Dec 2025, Satya Nadella pledged a four-year US$17.5 billion outlay to build new hyperscale data centres, sovereign clouds, and AI-skills programs in India—Microsoft’s largest single investment in Asia—adding to the US$3 billion already underway.
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