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Century Lauds Biden Administration’s Reimposition Of Section 232 Tariffs On UAE Aluminium Imports

Century Lauds Biden Administration’s Reimposition Of Section 232 Tariffs On UAE Aluminium Imports

American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum yesterday praised President Joe Biden for his decision to retain the Section 232 aluminium tariffs on the United Arab Emirates. Earlier this week the Biden Administration reversed a last-minute reprieve for the UAE issued by the outgoing...

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Events

Canada Set To Announce Final Targets For Retaliatory Aluminium Tariffs This Week

Canada Set To Announce Final Targets For Retaliatory Aluminium Tariffs This Week

Domestic media is reporting that retaliatory sanctions could be announced as early as today by the Canadian government in response to the Trump Administration’s levying of tariffs on the dominion’s aluminium last month. Anonymous sources told The Globe and Mail in Toronto that the announcement would likely be either today or tomorrow that the Canadian […]

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Canada To Impose Retaliatory Tariffs On US$2.7 Billion In U.S. Aluminium Products

Canada To Impose Retaliatory Tariffs On US$2.7 Billion In U.S. Aluminium Products

Responding to a broadside from the Trump Administration to its aluminium industry, the Canadian government fired a return volley this weekend, announcing the levying of US$2.7 billion in retaliatory tariffs on aluminium products imported from it southern neighbor. On Friday, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the counter tariffs would begin by the middle […]

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Trump Administration Levies New Round Of Sanctions On Iranian Aluminium

Trump Administration Levies New Round Of Sanctions On Iranian Aluminium

In an attempt at denying the specialized metals Iran’s nuclear ballistic missile and military programs, the Trump Administration imposed greater sanctions on aluminium, steel, and copper, much of which was already under previous sanction. Late Thursday United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described almost two dozen materials used as materials in the Iranian military’s […]

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U.S. Aluminium Beverage Can Makers Urge Trump Administration Against Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Imports

U.S. Aluminium Beverage Can Makers Urge Trump Administration Against Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Imports

A quartet of North American aluminium beverage can trade groups sent an open letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser last week, seeking to convince the Trump Administration that a reimposition of Section 232 aluminium tariffs on aluminium imports from Canada would be extraordinarily detrimental to their constituents and U.S. consumers generally. The letter, which […]

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USW Says Rumored Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Aluminium Makes “Mockery” Of USMCA

USW Says Rumored Section 232 Tariffs On Canadian Aluminium Makes “Mockery” Of USMCA

One of the biggest metalworkers’ unions on the North American continent said late last week that the rumored imposition of tariffs on Canadian aluminium exports to the United States would make a “mockery” of the principles underlying the pending United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement while failing to address the true source of the aluminium sector’s woes. In […]

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