Coal Shortages Threatening India’s Aluminium Smelters
According to a major trade group, India’s ongoing coal shortage affecting power plants and railways has begun to take a...
India aluminium
Dedicated National Policy Key To Maximizing Aluminium Production: NALCO’s Chand
In order for India to meet its production goals, the country must have a dedicated national policy for the aluminium sector. So said National Aluminium Company’s (NALCO) chairman and managing director Tapan Kumar Chand in a recent address. Speaking at the Annual...
Hindalco Calls On Protection From Imports As Low-Cost Aluminium Threatens To Flood Indian Producers
The call for protection against a flood of low-cost aluminium imports has again been raised to the Indian government, this...
MRAI Calls For Abolition Of India’s 2.5% Customs Duty On Scrap Aluminium
Secondary aluminium trade lobby group Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) called upon Centre to drop the country’s 2.5-percent customs...
Events
Indian Government Enacts Retaliatory Duties In Response To Trump Aluminium Tariffs
The Indian government responded to the Trump administration’s blanket tariffs on aluminium and steel by suspending concessions on over two dozen imported items from the United States, notifying the World Trade Organization that the tariffs it enacts, which will be on products including motorcycles, iron and steel products, lentils, and boric acid, are intended to […]
How is India Affected by Turmoil in Aluminium Markets?
The repercussions of the policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration on aluminium markets are too pronounced to be ignored. First, the US treasury invoked Section 232 of its Trade Expansion Act to clamp 10 per cent import duties on aluminium and extending trade barriers to some of its closest allies, including Canada, Mexico, and […]
Vedanta Says Aluminium Capacity Cuts On Horizon If State-Mandated Coal Restrictions Continue
Indian miner Vedanta Ltd. advised the market last week that restrictions on coal for non-power industry consumers may result in production curtailments should such restrictions continue this week. CEO of Vedanta’s metals division Samir Cairae warned that the firm had but a day’s supply of coal in reserve at the Jharsuguda smelter due to Coal […]
India Files Complaint with WTO Over Trump Aluminium Tariffs
The government of India has joined an ever-lengthening queue of countries taking the United States to task over the Trump administration’s imposition of aluminium tariffs earlier this year, taking the first step in the process of challenging the tariff at the World Trade Organization (WTO). An official with India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade made […]
India’s Government Warns of Negative Impact of Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs
The Indian government warned that the 10-percent tariffs enacted by United States President Donald Trump on all imported aluminium will have a negative impact upon India’s exports to the U.S. market. Although the Indian government has already approached the Trump administration seeking an exemption from the tariffs, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry C. […]
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 ...
