Aluminium Trade Groups Call On G7 To Combat Beijing’s Subsidies
Aluminium sector trade group Aluminum Association joined with their counterparts in Canada, Japan, and Europe to call upon the Group...
China aluminium subsidies
Global Aluminium Trade Groups Call On G7 To Rein In Chinese Subsidies
Last week the Aluminum Association, European Aluminium, the Aluminium Association of Canada, and the Japan Aluminium Association came together to release Towards a Fairer and Cleaner Trade in Aluminium, a policymaker briefing that details the manifest harm exacted by state subsidies of...
US, EU, and Japan Aluminium Associations Laud Agreement To Strengthen WTO Rules Against Subsidized Capacity
The Aluminum Association, European Aluminium, and the Japan Aluminium Association released a joint statement yesterday hailing an agreement among their...
“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...
Events
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 aluminium foil exports from the People’s Republic of China sold their wares in the U.S. that resulted in preliminary dumping margins of between 97 percent and 162 percent. The Commerce Department says that U.S. Customs […]
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 the Middle Kingdom were determined not to go down without a verbal fight. The skirmish, conducted by the United States Commerce Department as part of an investigation ordered by President Donald Trump, was attended by […]
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 by the People’s Republic of China. This complaint, which is the sixteenth (and likely final) such complaint against China with the trade body, alleges that Beijing has been handing out low-interest loans and energy subsidies […]
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 […]
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 ...
