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 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 24 percent and scrap aluminium by 22 percent on the year in the April to October period of 2018, and experts believe...
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...
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...
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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 […]
Indian Trade Group Seeks End To 2.5-Percent Duty On Imported Scrap Aluminium
An Indian scrap metals trade group appealed to the government last week to remove the 2.5 percent import duty on aluminium scrap, setting aright the inverted duty structure on aluminium scrap now in place. The Metal Recycling Association of India criticized the tariff, which is in place despite the assessment of no tariffs on finished […]
Nalco Announces Plans For A ₹5.52 Billion Downstream Aluminium Project In Central Odisha
Fresh off the development of a downstream aluminium plant in conjunction with Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco) and the announcement of plans to partner with Rusal and Almex on other downstream projects, India’s National Aluminium Company (Nalco) announced earlier this week plans to invest ₹5.52 billion (US$76 million) in another downstream aluminium project to […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
