European Aluminium Calls Upon Continent’s Governments For Cooperation On Sustainability Goals
Brussels trade group European Aluminium Association released its plan for sustainability in the continent’s aluminium sector earlier this week. The...
European Union
European Union Levies Tariffs Of Up To 18.2 Percent On Aluminium Foil From China
New import tariffs on aluminium foil from the People’s Republic of China are in the offing, as the European Commission found this week that Chinese producers received unfair and excessive state subsidies. The EU’s official journal noted the action, revealing that the...
European Aluminium Association Calls For Stronger Trade Policy At 40th Anniversary Assembly
Aluminium trade group European Aluminium Association conducted its general assembly this week, marking the 40th year of representing the continent’s...
US Trade Rep Tai Hopeful Of Breaking Impasse With EU On Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said last week she had high hopes for the current negotiations between the United States...
Events
European Aluminium Criticizes European Commission’s Suspension Of Anti-Dumping Duties On Chinese Producers
Aluminium trade group European Aluminium Association said on Monday that it approved of the European Commission’s final confirmation of definitive anti-dumping duties on flat-rolled aluminium products (FRP) on the European market. However, it continued to oppose the nine-month suspension of such duties, which the EC officially confirmed this week. EA noted the official findings by […]
Mitilineos Developing New Methods For Scandium Production From Bauxite
Greek energy company Mitilineos announced last week its plan to enhance the use of its more economical method for extracting rare earth elements like scandium from bauxite ore. Mitilineos will be developing the new methods for scandium extraction from bauxite ore as part of its participation in the European Union’s SCALE Project of Horizon 2020. […]
European Aluminium Urges Regulators To Act Decisively Against Chinese Importers
Trade group European Aluminium Association said this week that the European government intends on imposing import duties on aluminium shipped in from the People’s Republic of China next month, but will ultimately suspend those import duties for nine months. The European Commission’s investigation into Chinese aluminium imports determined that the Middle Kingdom flooded the continent’s […]
European Aluminium Praises United Kingdom’s Move To Penalize Chinese Aluminium Extrusion Imports
Trade group European Aluminium lauded the government of the United Kingdom for launching an investigation into allegations that aluminium extrusions producers from the People’s Republic of China dumped their products on the British Isles. The association notes that the United Kingdom joins the rest of the continent as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, […]
Hope For Relief For United States Aluminium Exporters As United Kingdom Relaxes Tariffs On Other Goods
Hopes for progress toward an end to tariffs on United States aluminium assessed by the United Kingdom spring anew after the British government agreed to halt retaliatory tariffs on American goods beginning on January 1. In a split from the European Union’s trade policies, London agreed to suspend the tariffs that were implemented last year […]
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 ...
