Increase In India’s Aluminium Import Duties May Be Death Sentence For SMEs
A renewal in calls by some in India’s aluminium sector for an increase in import duties on scrap and primary...
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India’s Aluminium Trade Groups Again Call Upon Government To Implement Safeguards
With the finer details of next fiscal year’s budget being ironed out, India’s aluminium sector again took up its call to increase import duties on primary, scrap, and downstream aluminium, and rationalization of aluminium production input costs. The Federation of Indian Chambers...
India’s Primary Aluminium Imports Rose 24 Percent In April – October, With More On The Way
Trade tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China helped boost primary aluminium imports to India by...
India’s Total Imports Of Aluminium From U.S. Smelters Rose By 158 Percent In 2018’s First Ten Months
Last year was a banner year for Indian imported aluminium to the United States, as numbers released earlier this week...
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India’s Aluminium Recyclers Push Back Against Talk Of Imported Scrap Tariff Hike
Though India’s primary aluminium producers continue to call for raising import duties on raw and scrap aluminium, downstream interests steadfastly oppose such a move, and have again gone on record to detail the harm they expect a rise in aluminium import duties would exact. An open letter penned by President of Material Recycling Association of […]
India’s Commerce Ministry Lends Support To Increasing Import Duties On Aluminium
An increase in import duties on aluminium entering India gained more momentum this week, as Union Minister Suresh Prabhu revealed that the country’s commerce ministry favors such a measure as a means to protect domestic manufacturers. “That is a proposal to protect our domestic industry. The proposal is under examination and we support the proposal,” […]
Indian Supreme Court Ruling On Pet Coke Imports May Cause Difficulties To Domestic Aluminium Sector
Future investment in India’s aluminium sector has been thrown into a state of uncertainty after the Supreme Court threw out a ban on the import of petroleum coke earlier this month. So says a report released by Fitch Group subsidiary India Ratings and Research yesterday. Per the report, an Indian Supreme Court ruling allowed for […]
Amid Spike In Imported Aluminium Scrap, India’s Aluminium Sector Continues Plea For Relief
Scrap aluminium imported into India spiked by 21.44 percent since the start of the fiscal year, with buyers shipping in 657 thousand metric tons since April 1. According to the Aluminium Association of India (AAI), the government must soon enact artificial barriers to such imports, which rose from last year’s first-half imported aluminium total of […]
AAI Again Petitions Indian Federal Government For Respite From Coal Restrictions
As aluminium producers continue to face ever-shrinking supplies of coal for firing captive power plants, the Aluminium Association of India (AAI) again appealed to the Indian government for a reprieve from its policy of prioritizing electrical plants over aluminium operations. As per recent developments, the coal supplies and rakes for CPPs (captive power plants), especially […]
Half-Year Report: Aluminium Prices Still Under Pressure
Base metals prices continued to slide in May and early June, with metals traded on the LME witnessing some serious losses, causing the index to drop by 6.6% in May. The reason for this fall remains the same: investors are cautious about ...
Aluminium Prices in Q2: A Market Analysis
Base metals prices tumbled in the last week of April and at the start of May, with the aluminium price ...
Research and Investment Hail Changing Tides for Montenegro’s KAP
On April 25, Montenegro’s Uniprom D.O.O. (owners of Kombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica, KAP) started construction works on a €15 million aluminium ...
Aluminium Industry Riding To Higher Demand In Electric Vehicles
This is an exciting time indeed for aluminium consumption, with demand for this highly versatile metal continuing to rise to ...
