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...
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Trump Administration Drops Ten-Percent Tariffs On Canadian Aluminium As Threat Of Retaliatory Tariffs Increase
With the threat of retaliatory tariffs from Canada on the horizon, the Trump Administration said yesterday that it would lift the 10-percent tariffs on imported aluminium so long as imports remained at current levels. In response, Canadian officials said that the billions...
Aluminum Association Of Canada Condemns New Round Of U.S. Tariffs
The Aluminium Association of Canada (AAC) expressed its disappointment with the Trump Administration’s decision last week to levy a new...
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...
Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aluminum Association Calls On Trump Administration To Continue Section 232 Exemptions For Mexico And Canada
The Aluminum Association published an open letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthiser on Thursday seeking to convince the Trump Administration to continue excepting North American producers from Section 232 aluminium tariffs. The letter, which was signed by more than a dozen CEOs and other executive officers from companies all along the aluminium value chain, […]
Aluminum Extruders Council Calls For End To Trump Section 232 Tariffs
The Aluminum Extruders Council yesterday called upon the Trump Administration to end Section 232 tariffs on imported aluminium, noting the damage the penalties they say were misapplied has done to the domestic aluminium industry. The AEC began by citing its optimism in the new tariffs. However, after over four dozen aluminium industry executives testified to […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
