Trump Administration Levies Section 232 Aluminium Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, European Union
Despite the best efforts of their governments to strike a compromise with the Trump administration, the White House announced yesterday...
Iconic American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson, Inc. said on Friday it expects a “significant impact” on sales due to retaliatory tariffs to be levied against large-displacement motorcycles by the European Union in response to the Trump administration’s decision to saddle EU exports of...
Despite the best efforts of their governments to strike a compromise with the Trump administration, the White House announced yesterday...
With the deadline for having a long-term deal with the United States on aluminium imports looming, the European Union is...
Hope for a deal on aluminium and steel tariffs between the Trump administration and the European Union may be fading...
With the threat of the lapse of the European Union’s temporary exemption from the Trump administration’s blanket 10-percent tariffs looming, the European Commission released a laundry list of products upon which it intends to levy retaliatory sanctions should a long-term exemption not be granted. The Commission released the list on Friday, which includes tariffs of […]
Ireland’s Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys characterized the tenuous situation at Aughinish Alumina as “critical” while in Washington, D.C. to meet with various officials of the Trump administration in an effort at resolving the situation between it and Aughinish’s parent company Rusal. Though she praised the decision made late last month to […]
With the exception deadline looming, Trump administration officials say reprieves granted certain countries to the blanket 10-percent tariffs enacted earlier this month may not all be extended. In comments made to Bloomberg on Saturday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross demurred when asked to specify precisely which countries would continue to enjoy their exceptions, saying that an […]
Though the body was granted a temporary reprieve last month, the European Union has petitioned the World Trade Organization for consultation with the United States government regarding President Donald Trump’s blanket 10-percent tariffs upon imported aluminium. The request is the second such of the WTO regarding the Trump tariffs, the first being made by the […]
According to Europe’s leading aluminium trade group, the continent’s political and economic union is poised to take action against the United States over the Trump administration’s blanket 10-percent tariffs on aluminium. In an email to Reuters earlier this week, European Aluminium revealed that the European Union is racing to begin countermeasures against the lately-enacted aluminium […]
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