Section 232 investigation

Aluminum Association Petitions US Commerce Department For Limits On Section 232 Exclusion Requests

Aluminum Association Petitions US Commerce Department For Limits On Section 232 Exclusion Requests

Aluminium sector trade group Aluminum Association relayed to the United States Commerce Department its recommendations for adjusting Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel last week, advising it on changes it would like to see to the newly-created category of “general approved...

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Events

Trump’s Ten-Percent Aluminium Tariffs Will See Flood of Imports By Summer: European Aluminium’s Götz

Trump’s Ten-Percent Aluminium Tariffs Will See Flood of Imports By Summer: European Aluminium’s Götz

European Aluminium’s Director General Gerd Götz told an assemblage of representatives from the continent’s media outlets that the coming 10-percent tariffs on aluminium are likely to be felt by Europe’s countries within three or four months of their enactment. Götz continued at Monday’s Section 232 press conference by saying that aluminium pipelines from Russia and […]

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Trump Grants Canada and Mexico Temporary Reprieve from Blanket Aluminium Tariffs

Trump Grants Canada and Mexico Temporary Reprieve from Blanket Aluminium Tariffs

Despite a week of withering criticism from overseas aluminium interests and a vast swath of his own party’s membership, United States President Donald Trump executed the documents placing into effect a blanket 10-percent tariff upon all imports of aluminium entering the country. The tariffs, which will commence on March 23, will apply to all countries […]

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Canada and Mexico May Win Brief Reprieve in Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs

Canada and Mexico May Win Brief Reprieve in Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs

Trump administration officials said Wednesday that the U.S. President may bestow upon the country’s neighbors a temporary reprieve from the coming blanket 10-percent aluminium tariffs, reversing his initial stance against any exemptions. In an interview with Fox Business Wednesday evening, the director of the White House’s Trade and Manufacturing Policy office Peter Navarro said “within […]

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Trump’s Ten-Percent Aluminium Tariffs Counter Counsel from Industry Trade Groups

Trump’s Ten-Percent Aluminium Tariffs Counter Counsel from Industry Trade Groups

United States President Donald Trump’s announcement earlier this week that his administration’s response to the findings of the Commerce Department’s Section 232 investigation will be a 10-percent tariff on the entirety of aluminium imported into the country, though scarcely unexpected, ran entirely counter to the counsel given him by several of the country’s major aluminium […]

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Insiders Say Trump Likely to Lay Ten-Percent Tariff on All Aluminium Imports

Insiders Say Trump Likely to Lay Ten-Percent Tariff on All Aluminium Imports

According to unnamed confidants who spoke to the media last week, United States president Donald Trump is planning to levy tariffs upon aluminium and steel imports that are harsher than recommendations given by the Commerce Department last month. Three White House insiders told Bloomberg late last week that Trump is leaning toward saddling steel imports […]

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