Brazil Turns Down Aluminium Quotas in “Capone-Like” Negotiations with Trump Administration
Though characterized by Trump administration officials as the adoption of a preliminary agreement to exempt the country from the blanket...
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U.S. Tariffs Notwithstanding, China’s Aluminium Exports Rose By 0.2% in April
Despite the blanket tariffs on aluminium imports imposed by the Trump administration, exports of the metal from the People’s Republic of China in April were slightly above the amount shipped in March. According to numbers lately released by China’s General Administration of...
Trump Grants Permanent Aluminium Tariff Exception to Three Countries, Temporary Break Extended for Three Others
Just hours prior to their end, United States President Donald Trump extended the handful of exceptions granted to his administration’s...
No Guarantees on Extending Trump Aluminium Tariff Reprieves: Commerce Sec’y Ross
With the exception deadline looming, Trump administration officials say reprieves granted certain countries to the blanket 10-percent tariffs enacted earlier...
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World’s Biggest Beer Company Holds Out Hope for Relief from Trump Aluminium Tariffs
The world’s largest beer brewer told shareholders earlier this week that there is still hope for exemptions and other aids from the United States government for companies that depend upon imported aluminium. In comments made at a meeting of the firm’s shareholders on Wednesday, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (AB InBev) CEO Carlos Brito voiced his opinion […]
Sources Say Argentina on Verge of Long-Term Exemption to U.S. Aluminium Tariff
According to rumors seeping out of last weekend’s Summit of the Americas, Argentina is soon to be the recipient of a carve-out to U.S. President Donald Trump’s blanket 10-percent tariffs upon imported aluminium. Per unnamed sources, the two countries’ governments struck an agreement allowing for such an exception, though the parties have yet to iron […]
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 consultation with the United States government regarding President Donald Trump’s blanket 10-percent tariffs upon imported aluminium. The request is the second such of the WTO regarding the Trump tariffs, the first being made by the […]
China Files Formal Complaint with WTO Regarding Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs
The government of the People’s Republic of China has opened a new front in the war against blanket 10-percent aluminium tariffs instituted by the administration of United States President Donald Trump with the launch of a formal complaint against the tariff at the World Trade Organization. The complaint formalizes Beijing’s promise to seek satisfaction at […]
EU Set to Take Trump Aluminium Tariffs to the WTO: European Aluminium
According to Europe’s leading aluminium trade group, the continent’s political and economic union is poised to take action against the United States over the Trump administration’s blanket 10-percent tariffs on aluminium. In an email to Reuters earlier this week, European Aluminium revealed that the European Union is racing to begin countermeasures against the lately-enacted aluminium […]
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 ...
