Canada’s aluminium industry is applauding Ottawa for its recent announcement that aluminium will be added to the government’s Import Control List system. In a statement released last week by the Aluminium Association of Canada, the organization praised the Canadian government’s use of...
Aluminium behemoth China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd founder Liu Zhongtian has been indicted by the United States government on charges that...
An article in the Wall Street Journal late last month brought to the wider public the issue of aluminium “transshipment,”...
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the United States Department of Commerce is investigating whether a New Jersey...
China’s Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) responded to widespread accusations in overseas media regarding the alleged fake semis activity in Mexico by China Zhongwang and related companies. The charges, which have lately appeared in prominent media outlets like the Wall Street Journal “seriously deviated from reality.” A tabloid published by the Chinese Communist Party described […]
Mexican exports to Vietnam continued at a blistering pace in June, lending further credence to the notion that a stockpile of fake semis is being transferred out of a warehouse in Guanajuato. According to data from the Mexican Secretariat of Economy, the country exported 162,851 metric tons of aluminium to Vietnam in June, good for […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is working with the American aluminium industry to change aluminium tariffs in a manner designed to staunch the flow of fake semis from China into the global aluminium market. As previously detailed in these pages, major Chinese firms have been justifiably accused on several occasions of shipping partially-machined aluminium parts […]
Century Aluminum’s CEO Michael Bless has been on a mission to combat what he (and many other experts) believes is the unfair manipulation of the global aluminium market by the People’s Republic of China. His fight, and plight, was detailed in an article by Bloomberg this week. Although he has had difficulty gaining traction, he […]
According to reports obtained by Aluminium Insider, a significant flow of fake semis has been emanating over the past several weeks from Mexico to Vietnam. The re-melted aluminium billet is likely to reenter the Asian market now that the United States market is closed to Chinese aluminium as a result of anti-dumping measures. Recent reports show […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
