U.S. Trade Reps At Negotiating Table with E.U., Australian, and Argentinian Reps Over Trump Aluminium Tariffs
A top trade official in the Trump Administration told a United States legislative committee that the executive branch is discussing...
Australia
No Guarantees on Extending Trump Aluminium Tariff Reprieves: Commerce Sec’y Ross
With the exception deadline looming, Trump administration officials say reprieves granted certain countries to the blanket 10-percent tariffs enacted earlier this month may not all be extended. In comments made to Bloomberg on Saturday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross demurred when asked to...
Australia Wins Exception to Trump’s 10-Percent Aluminium Tariffs
Australian Aluminium exporters breathed a sigh of relief this weekend after United States President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister...
Australia Aluminium Producers Win Exemption from Coming United States Tariffs
Thanks to talks among trade officials from Australia and the United States on the sidelines of the late G20 summit...
Events
Australia Passes on Imposing Countervailing Duty on Aluminium Extrusions from Vietnam
The Australian government has chosen not to impose a countervailing duty on aluminium extrusions shipped from Vietnam according to an announcement made by the Viet Nam Competition Authority (VCA) on Tuesday. According to the VCA, the Australia Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) made the determination after a brief investigation into allegations of dumping leveled at Malaysian and […]
Alumina Ltd’s Pizzey Eviscerates Australian Government for Perceived Poor Power Policies
Alumina Limited’s chairman John Pizzey leveled withering criticism at Australia’s national energy policy earlier today, declaring that ten years of the country’s power policy consigned the aluminium industry to paying double the price for power compared to the rest of the western world. Pizzey went on to say that such failures are all but certain […]
Tomago Smelter May Be Prime Customer for Potential Clean-Coal Plant in NSW
Citing rising prices and unreliable supplies of power to the plant, New South Wales’ Tomago Aluminium Company advised the federal and state government that it would potentially be a large-scale buyer of electricity from any low-emission coal-powered electricity plants that may be constructed in the area. The announcement is significant due to the fact that […]
Alumina Ltd’s First-Half Numbers Lower Due to Rough Commodities Market
Australian firm Alumina Ltd. published its half-year results yesterday. Though still in the black, their first-half numbers reflect the continued challenging commodities market. Alumina reported an after-tax net profit of US$8 million for the half, which is down year-on-year from US$122 million. The firm took a US$5 million hit from the restructuring of Alcoa Worldwide […]
Australian Gov’t to Begin Investigation Into Possible Aluminium Dumping from Vietnam, Malaysia
Australia’s government has begun a probe into aluminium imports from certain Asian countries to determine if they are engaging in unfair trade practices. According to the state-run news outlet Vietnam News Agency, and reported by Platts, the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science’s Anti-Dumping Commission is investigating aluminium imports from Vietnam and Malaysia. The […]
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
