Canada Set To Announce Final Targets For Retaliatory Aluminium Tariffs This Week
Domestic media is reporting that retaliatory sanctions could be announced as early as today by the Canadian government in response...
Chrystia Freeland
Trump Administration Drops Ten-Percent Tariffs On Canadian Aluminium As Threat Of Retaliatory Tariffs Increase
With the threat of retaliatory tariffs from Canada on the horizon, the Trump Administration said yesterday that it would lift the 10-percent tariffs on imported aluminium so long as imports remained at current levels. In response, Canadian officials said that the billions...
Canada To Impose Retaliatory Tariffs On US$2.7 Billion In U.S. Aluminium Products
Responding to a broadside from the Trump Administration to its aluminium industry, the Canadian government fired a return volley this...
Breakthrough Between U.S. And Canada On Aluminium And Steel Tariffs Within Sight: Sen. Grassley
More signs of a breakthrough on Section 232 aluminium and steel tariffs between the United States and Canadian government emerged...
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Time For Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs Has Passed: Canada Foreign Minister Freeland
As an accord has already been reached on the new trade agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland expressed her opinion that the leverage given Washington, D.C. by the Section 232 aluminium and steel tariffs is no longer needed. Speaking to reporters late last week in the U.S. […]
National Security Justifications For Aluminium And Steel Tariffs “Specious And Absurd”: Canada’s Freeland
In the course of a discussion with the United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland lobbied for the end of the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel, citing the harm endured by both sides on account of the measure. Though the dominion’s government is […]
Trump And Trudeau Talk Tiptoes Through Tariff Tensions
Though the subject of the Trump administration’s blanket tariffs on aluminium and steel were a subject of discussion between the two men, insiders say United States President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not reach an agreement to hold formal talks between the two governments on the matter. Meanwhile, on the record […]
Trump Aluminium Tariffs Must Be Addressed In USMCA Negotiations: Canadian Conservative MP Raitt
The chorus of northern voices demanding an end to the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs on imported aluminium and steel gained a new voice this week, as Conservative deputy leader Lisa Raitt made her position known during a meeting with Canadian business leaders on Wednesday. Raitt’s meeting was prompted as part of a wider discussion […]
Canada Levies Reciprocal Surtaxes of Up To 25% On U.S. Aluminium, Steel, and Other Imports
The Canadian government announced on Friday that it will enact reciprocal surtaxes on C$16.6 billion (US$12.6 billion) in imported aluminium, steel, and a panoply of other products in response to the levying of tariffs upon Canadian aluminium and steel at the beginning of June. Citing the significant and complex trade relationship between the two countries, […]
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 ...
