Moscow In Talks With Aluminium Firms On New Mineral Extraction Tax
Several sources with knowledge of the situation told Reuters this week that talks between the Russian government and producers of...
Russian Federation
Aluminum Association Praises Commerce Department’s Finding Of Dumping Of Certain Aluminium Foils From Five Countries
Aluminium sector trade group Aluminum Association lauded the United States Department of Commerce for its final determination that importers from Russia and four other countries have been dumping certain aluminium foils on the American market. On Friday the Commerce Department found that...
Moscow Imposes 15 Percent Export Levy On Primary Aluminium, Dozens Of Other Metals
The government of the Russian Federation imposed export duties upon a wide range of steel and non-ferrous exports, including primary...
Aluminum Association Files Complaints Over Foil From Five Countries But Allegedly Originating From China
The Aluminum Association’s Foil Trade Enforcement Working Group filed a formal complaint with the Trump Administration on Tuesday over imports...
Events
Spat Over Aluminium And Steel Tariffs Between U.S. And Russia Not Likely To Be Resolved This Year: Russia’s Economic Minister
The ongoing conflict between Moscow and Washington, D.C. over tariffs on aluminium and steel is not likely to come to a friendly conclusion by year’s end. Such was the message expressed yesterday by a representative of the Russian government. In comments to Russian news agency TASS, Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin that litigation over the […]
Russia’s Aluminium Consumption To Rise By 300k Metric Tons This Year – Trade Minister Manturov
In an effort at mitigating the damage done by sanctions and tariffs lately applied to domestic smelters by the United States government, the Russian Federation plans to bump national consumption of aluminium by 300 thousand metric tons by year’s end. Russian Federation Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov made the announcement to Russian news […]
Russia Files Complaint Against United States At WTO Over Trump Aluminium Tariffs
The government of the Russian Federation has become the latest entity to file suit at the World Trade Organization against the United States over the Trump administration’s blanket tariffs upon aluminium and steel imposed earlier this year. Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin announced the action on Friday, noting that consultations with the United States […]
Moscow Petitions WTO for Third-Party Status in Aluminium Tariff Negotiations Between US and EU
The government of the Russian Federation said Tuesday that it has requested to join consultations at the World Trade Organization between the United States and the European Union over the Trump administration’s aluminium tariffs. Per the request, which is dated June 15, Moscow seeks to be included in the proceedings as a third party as […]
Russian Government Searching for Ways to Help Embattled Aluminium Industry: Deputy PM Kozak
The Russian Federation government is in the process of finding new and effective ways of boosting its country’s native aluminium industry. So said one of the state’s top officials in the course of comments made to the press last weekend. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak told reporters at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum […]
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 ...
