United States And India Reach Trade Accord On Aluminium And Steel Imports
The governments of the United States and India announced an agreement last week in which India will remove retaliatory tariffs...
Last week the Word Trade Organization (WTO) handed down a decision in a trade dispute between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, finding that the latter acted out of step with its obligations to the WTO by levying further...
The governments of the United States and India announced an agreement last week in which India will remove retaliatory tariffs...
The Indian government’s appeal for an exemption to the United States’ blanket import tariff on aluminium and steel is dead...
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) this week came out in support of a push by a bipartisan group of U.S....
American primary aluminium producer Century Aluminum’s top executive came out in support of the Biden administration’s decision to apply a 200 percent tariff on imported aluminium from the Russian Federation. In a press release, President and Chief Executive Officer Jesse Gary said the move was long overdue. “Century Aluminum fully supports the Biden administration’s decision […]
The United States government has taken the long-expected step of imposing a hefty tariff on primary aluminium and derivative products imported from the Russian Federation last week, opting to place a 200 percent increased tariff on all such imports. The tariff, which will take effect in March, is a de facto ban on Russian aluminium. […]
Last week the World Trade Organization ruled that the Trump-era import duties on aluminium and steel violated international law. On Friday the three-judge tribunal found that the import tariffs on aluminium and steel instituted in 2018 were in violation of the WTO’s rules and recommended that Washington amend the tariffs to comport to those rules. […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is encouraged by the Biden Administration’s actions to date in ratcheting down barriers to imported steel and aluminium erected by the Trump Administration. Such were the comments conveyed by a spokesperson for the prime minister last week. The unidentified spokesperson made the encouraging remarks in answer to a question posed […]
Japanese trade minister Koichi Hagiuda called upon the United States government to end Trump-era aluminium and steel tariffs during an online meeting with his American counterpart on Thursday. Hagiuda met with United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai last week in a meeting over the Section 232 blanket tariffs on steel and aluminium that were implemented […]
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