European Union Requests WTO Consultations with United States Regarding Trump Aluminium Tariffs
Though the body was granted a temporary reprieve last month, the European Union has petitioned the World Trade Organization for...
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AEC Urges Trump Administration Against Aluminium Import Quotas
American aluminium trade group The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) announced yesterday that it has fallen in line with the Aluminum Association’s position against the administration of United States President Donald Trump’s push to impose quotas on imported primary aluminium. According to a...
United States Says China’s Claim That Aluminium Tariff Violate WTO Rules is “Baseless”
The United States government issued an official rebuttal on Wednesday to a request made by the government of the People’s...
Hoist By Our Own Petard: The Coming Backfire of Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs
Enormously controversial both in the States and abroad, the blanket 10-percent tariffs ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump are scheduled...
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UAE Says Record of Fair Competition Justifies Exemption from Trump Aluminium Tariff
The United Arab Emirates has taken its position in the long line of aluminium-producing states seeking an exemption from United States President Donald Trump’s blanket 10-percent tariffs on aluminium imports that is set to kick in on Friday. The assistant undersecretary for foreign trade affairs for U.A.E.’s Ministry of Economy Juma Mohamed Al Kait relayed […]
U.S. Senate Leader Says Chances of Legislative Amendment to Trump Aluminium Tariffs Are Small
Those hoping for a reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump’s blanket 10-percent tariffs upon all imported aluminium can expect no help from the legislative branch. So said the top member of the branch’s upper house earlier this week. Kentucky’s senior senator and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that the odds of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ...
