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China's exports rose 27.0% year on year in June 2026 in US dollar terms, blowing past forecasts and marking the fastest monthly expansion in years.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative determined on 1 June 2026 that certain Brazilian trade acts and policies were unreasonable under Section 301, and proposed applying 25% additional duties on all Brazilian goods.

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs recorded Saudi Arabia's UAV-related imports from Taiwan at US$47.2 million in April 2026 , placing Riyadh at the top of Taiwan's drone export ledger for the month. The figure is not an outlier. It lands on top of a quarter that already rewrote the record books.

Apple filed a trade secret misappropriation complaint on 10 July 2026 against OpenAI and two former Apple employees in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Australian residential conveyancing professional fees have compressed to $700, $1,500, with disbursements charged separately on top. The fixed-fee structure creates a unit-economics problem: every additional search a conveyancer orders eats into their own margin, not the client's.

Andy Burnham secured 322 of 403 Labour MP nominations on 9 July 2026, mathematically eliminating any challenger from reaching the 81-signature threshold required to stand.

Veteran broadcaster and former Victorian senator Derryn Hinch has died aged 82. Known as the Human Headline, Hinch spent five decades across radio and television and was jailed multiple times for naming sex offenders in defiance of suppression orders.

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Airservices Australia activated three new Brisbane flightpath changes on 9 July 2026 under Package 3 of its Noise Action Plan, reducing the number of residents overflown by a combined roughly 138,500 people.

The US Trade Representative named Australia among 54 economies allegedly failing to enforce forced-labour import bans and proposed a 12.5% tariff surcharge, without citing evidence implicating Australian exports specifically.

The Trump administration proposed additional tariffs of 10 to 12.5 per cent on imports from 60 economies, including Australia, under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, citing those countries' failure to ban goods made with forced labour.

Lionel Messi scored his 20th World Cup goal in the 29th minute as Argentina defeated Cape Verde 3-2 after extra time in the round of 32 at Miami Stadium on 3 July 2026. Cape Verde levelled twice before Diney Borges turned a Messi corner into his own net in the 111th minute to settle it.