Ottawa Announces C$100 Million Investment In Aluminium And Steel Firms Impacted By Section 232 Tariffs
In an effort at mitigating damage done to the dominion’s small- and medium-sized aluminium and steel manufacturers by the Trump...
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Removal Of Section 232 Tariffs On Canada’s Aluminium And Steel To Occur In “Next Few Weeks”: Ambassador MacNaughton
Canadian ambassador to the United States David MacNaughton continues to say an end to the Section 232 import tariffs on the dominion’s aluminium and steel will come to an end “in the next few weeks” in a repetition of similar comments made...
Mexico’s Government Says Ratification Of USMCA Contingent Upon End To Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
Echoing the United States’ northern neighbors, officials from the Mexican government confirmed over the weekend the position that ratification of...
Trump And Trudeau Discuss Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs, But To No Avail
Though the United States and Canadian heads of government spoke on the subject of relief for Section 232 aluminium and...
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U.S. Government “Unified” With Canada On End To Aluminium And Steel Tariffs: Kudlow
Echoing comments made late last week by Canadian politicians, officials south of the border in Washington, D.C. said on Sunday that the blanket tariffs levied on Canadian aluminium and steel tariffs are soon to be history. White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow revealed to reporters this weekend the American perspective that the impasse on tariffs […]
Canadian Government Sees End To U.S. Tariffs On Aluminium And Steel
Though Canadian officials are optimistic that the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium are soon to be lifted, they warned that the tariffs may still stall ratification of NAFTA’s replacement treaty. In comments made to domestic media last Thursday, Canada’s Transport Minister Marc Garneau is still considering putting the brakes on ratification […]
National Security Justifications For Aluminium And Steel Tariffs “Specious And Absurd”: Canada’s Freeland
In the course of a discussion with the United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland lobbied for the end of the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel, citing the harm endured by both sides on account of the measure. Though the dominion’s government is […]
China’s Aluminium Exports Break Record In January
Continued tepid domestic demand coaxed out a bumper crop of aluminium exports from the People’s Republic of China last month, breaking a four-year record high in the process. According to data from China’s Customs department on Thursday, domestic smelters sent 552 thousand metric tons overseas last month, besting December’s revised total of 520 thousand metric […]
Beer Industry Suffering Under Weight Of Trump Aluminium Tariffs Says Trade Group President
The head of a major beer industry trade group eviscerated the Trump Administration’s tariffs on aluminium late last week, saying that the move has done nothing but harm beer brewers and the entirety of the beer industry. Jim McGreevy, president of The Beer Institute, made the comments in an interview aired on Friday, opining that […]
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 ...
