United States Government Assesses Duties of Up To 162 Percent on Chinese Aluminium Foil Imports
United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced on Friday that the Commerce Department came to a preliminary determination that...
China aluminium subsidies
“Sucking Sound” Of Loss Of Aluminium Smelting Capacity The Result Of Beijing Subsidies: Alcoa CEO Harvey
Monstrous subsidies from Beijing is contributing to the continued bloat of aluminium production in the People’s Republic of China according to Alcoa Corporation’s CEO Roy Harvey, and he’s working to muster support from government officials around the globe to help put a...
U.S. Aluminium Firms Ask Commerce Department for Tariffs on Chinese Imports
Withering criticisms of China’s aluminium sector filled the air during the long-awaited Section 232 hearings on Thursday, but representatives from...
Parting Shot – Obama Administration Takes China’s Aluminium Overcapacity to WTO
The Obama Administration initiated a complaint at the World Trade Organization on Thursday over government subsidies given to aluminium producers...
Events
Aluminium Firms Offer Solutions in US Commerce Department Hearing on China Dumping
The United States International Trade Commission held its long-awaited hearing over allegations of unfair trade practices by aluminium smelters in the People’s Republic of China and the harm to American smelters such practices have inflicted. Chaired by Democratic Senator Joe Manchin and Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito, both from West Virginia, the USITC heard from […]
AEC Joins China Trade Task Force
North American aluminium extrusion trade group Aluminum Extruders Council has signed on with the China Trade Task Force (CTTF) and its call to the United States and other global players to take action against the runaway overcapacity of aluminium flowing out of smelters from within the People’s Republic of China. “As an off-take for its […]
Trade Group Supports U.S. Government’s Stance Against Granting China Market Economy Status
The Manufacturers for Trade Enforcement (MTE) voiced its support late last week for United States trade representatives’ contention that the People’s Republic of China continues to operate a non-market economy, in large part due to Beijing’s manipulation of the domestic aluminium industry. “There is little doubt that China’s market reforms have fallen short of the […]
Indian Smelters Gearing Up to Take On Flood of Chinese Aluminium
India’s aluminium companies are rebooting in an effort to combat the flooding of their domestic market by the government-subsidized smelters in the People’s Republic of China. Hindalco currently owns 46% of the domestic aluminium market share, but imports from China fill the second-largest slice of the market at just over a one-fifth share. China’s tremendous […]
Floating on Air – China’s Millions that Prop Up Unprofitable Capacity
We have reported a slow but steady rebound of the global aluminium market over the past several weeks and months. The market is beginning to reawaken from the dismal depths to which it sunk last summer, when nearly all capacity outside of the People’s Republic of China was loss-making to one degree or another. A […]
Is Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter a bargain or a smart investment?
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s aluminium assets in Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands, priced at up to US$ 350 million, news agencies reported earlier this month. A ...
Aluminium Extrusions Are Winning The Race For Battery Enclosure In EVs
Battery enclosures for electric vehicles (also called frames, housings or battery packs) have a pretty straightforward purpose: holding and protecting ...
Half-Year Report: Aluminium Prices Still Under Pressure
Base metals prices continued to slide in May and early June, with metals traded on the LME witnessing some serious ...
Aluminium Prices in Q2: A Market Analysis
Base metals prices tumbled in the last week of April and at the start of May, with the aluminium price ...
