Yunnan Power Cuts Drive Up China’s Aluminium Imports By 27.1 Percent In April
Aluminium imports into the People’s Republic of China rose by 27.1 percent on the year last month partly as a...
China aluminium industry
Yunnan To Ease Power Curbs And Boost Aluminium Smelting Capacity Later This Month
The Yunnan government is easing off on power usage restrictions later this month, which is likely to boost aluminium output in the region according to sources claiming knowledge of the situation. The region has been struggling through drought in recent months, which...
China’s Unwrought Aluminium Imports Rises By 11.3 Percent In Opening Two Months Of 2023
Customs data released last week by the Chinese government show that imports of aluminium into the country over the first...
Power Rationing In Yunnan Spells Aluminium Production Cuts In China
Aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China are expected to pare down production in the coming weeks thanks to...
Events
China’s Aluminium Production Sets New Record High In 2022 As Imports Fall Off
Numbers released this week by Beijing show that the People’s Republic of China’s aluminium production rose to a new record high last year as imports of primary aluminium fell off steeply from the prior year’s total. In 2022, aluminium smelters in China bested the prior year’s production by 4.5 percent, setting the new record at […]
Guangdong Aluminium Smelters Send Workers On Spring Festival Holiday Early Due To Tepid Demand
Several aluminium smelters in Guangdong, China are closing down earlier than usual for the Spring Festival holiday this year, while others are revising output goals downward for the current year, as domestic demand for aluminium in recent weeks has been weaker than expected. Although Beijing lifted the strict COVID-19 restrictions that have weighed down manufacturing […]
Brazil To Enact Import Duties On Aluminium Sheet Imports From China
The Brazilian government has become the next jurisdiction to impose trade sanctions on imports of aluminium from sellers in the People’s Republic of China. According to an announcement from China’s Ministry of Commerce late last week, the Brazilian government will begin to impose countervailing duties at the end of March on aluminium sheet products exported […]
Aluminium Imports Into China Fall In November As Smelters Increase Production
Imports of aluminium into the People’s Republic of China fell by 35.7 percent on the year in November, while its domestic aluminium output rose by 9.4 percent from last year’s November total. November saw 255,744 metric tons of aluminium arrive on China’s shores according to newly-released data from the General Administration of Customs, better by […]
AEC Praises ITC’s Renewal Of Antidumping And Countervailing Duties Against China’s Aluminium Extruders
Trade group American Extruders Council (AEC) lauded the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) unanimous decision this week to extend protections from subsidized aluminium imports from the People’s Republic of China. The ITC’s decision to extend protections for US aluminium extruders came in the five-year sunset review of the protections it enacted in 2017. ITC’s reviews […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
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 ...
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 ...
