In an effort at mitigating damage done to the dominion’s small- and medium-sized aluminium and steel manufacturers by the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs, the Canadian government said Monday that it plans to send C$100 million (US$74.6 million) to affected manufacturers and...
Echoing the United States’ northern neighbors, officials from the Mexican government confirmed over the weekend the position that ratification of...
Though the United States and Canadian heads of government spoke on the subject of relief for Section 232 aluminium and...
Echoing comments made late last week by Canadian politicians, officials south of the border in Washington, D.C. said on Sunday...
Though Canadian officials are optimistic that the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium are soon to be lifted, they warned that the tariffs may still stall ratification of NAFTA’s replacement treaty. In comments made to domestic media last Thursday, Canada’s Transport Minister Marc Garneau is still considering putting the brakes on ratification […]
In the course of a discussion with the United States Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland lobbied for the end of the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel, citing the harm endured by both sides on account of the measure. Though the dominion’s government is […]
Continued tepid domestic demand coaxed out a bumper crop of aluminium exports from the People’s Republic of China last month, breaking a four-year record high in the process. According to data from China’s Customs department on Thursday, domestic smelters sent 552 thousand metric tons overseas last month, besting December’s revised total of 520 thousand metric […]
The head of a major beer industry trade group eviscerated the Trump Administration’s tariffs on aluminium late last week, saying that the move has done nothing but harm beer brewers and the entirety of the beer industry. Jim McGreevy, president of The Beer Institute, made the comments in an interview aired on Friday, opining that […]
A recent study of the effects of the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel shows that the move has done vastly more harm than good for the domestic aluminium industry. An email penned by the senior director of public affairs at the Aluminum Association Matt Meenan to industry media detailed a study […]
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 ...
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
