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AEC Urges Trump Administration Against Aluminium Import Quotas

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...

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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 […]

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 […]