Century to Invest US$116.5 MM in Hawesville Aluminium Smelter
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin announced earlier this week the investment of US$116.5 million by Century Aluminum into improvements at its...
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Turkish Government Expects Results This Week from Talks with Trump Administration over Aluminium Tariffs
Officials from the government of Turkey say that they are in communication with their United States counterparts in in an effort at finding common ground over the blanket tariffs on steel and aluminium imposed upon all such imports by the Trump administration...
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...
Japan PM Abe to Discuss Aluminium Tariffs with U.S. President Trump Later This Month
The administration of United States President Donald Trump announced on Monday that it would be engaging in face-to-face talks with...
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Russian Government Crafting Response to Trump Aluminium Tariffs
The government of the Russian Federation said yesterday that it is in the midst of crafting a response to the lately-enacted blanket 10-percent tariffs upon aluminium imports put into place by United States President Donald Trump. Russia’s Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexei Gruzdev made the announcement in the course of remarks he made to students […]
China Retaliates to Trump Aluminium Tariffs with Spike in Duties for Over Ten Dozen U.S. Imports
The government of the People’s Republic of China responded on Sunday to the tariffs placed upon aluminium imports by the United States by raising tariffs of up to 25 percent on over ten dozen American imports. The list of 123 items upon which Beijing began assessing tariffs yesterday was largely identical to a draft list […]
Japanese Aluminium Trade Group Calls Upon Trump Administration to Drop Aluminium Tariffs
Citing WTO trade rules and relaying their apprehension for the global aluminium trade, a Japanese trade group called for the end of blanket 10-percent tariffs upon imported aluminium imposed by United States President Donald Trump. At a news conference on Thursday, Mitsuru Okada, chairman of the Japan Aluminium Association, issued the call on behalf of […]
India’s Government Warns of Negative Impact of Trump’s Aluminium Tariffs
The Indian government warned that the 10-percent tariffs enacted by United States President Donald Trump on all imported aluminium will have a negative impact upon India’s exports to the U.S. market. Although the Indian government has already approached the Trump administration seeking an exemption from the tariffs, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry C. […]
Canada’s Government to Increase Efforts Against Expected Rise in Aluminium Transshipment
In an effort at staving off an expected flood of transshipments of aluminium through the country, the Canadian government said earlier this week that it is enacting barriers that it hopes will make such activities more difficult. Canada has been granted an exemption to the blanket 10-percent tariffs levied on all imports of aluminium into […]
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 ...
