US Trade Rep Tai Hopeful Of Breaking Impasse With EU On Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said last week she had high hopes for the current negotiations between the United States...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is encouraged by the Biden Administration’s actions to date in ratcheting down barriers to imported steel and aluminium erected by the Trump Administration. Such were the comments conveyed by a spokesperson for the prime minister last week....
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said last week she had high hopes for the current negotiations between the United States...
Hopes for progress toward an end to tariffs on United States aluminium assessed by the United Kingdom spring anew after...
Domestic media is reporting that retaliatory sanctions could be announced as early as today by the Canadian government in response...
The Aluminium Association of Canada (AAC) expressed its disappointment with the Trump Administration’s decision last week to levy a new set of tariffs on aluminium and steel imported from Canada. Jean Simard , President and CEO of the Aluminium Association of Canada, challenged the Trump Administration’s contention that the move was done in response to […]
American beer industry trade group The Beer Institute marked Beer Can Appreciation Day last week by calling attention to what it sees as a lack of transparency in the aluminium market. Accompanying the press release was a short video produced by the Beer Institute illustrating the point. Jim McGreevy, President and CEO of the Beer […]
Tariffs on some imported aluminium and steel products will rise next month after United States President Donald Trump issued a proclamation alleging that producers from some countries are circumventing existing import tariffs by shipping derivative goods instead of raw metal. On Friday the White House issued the proclamation which boosts the duties on derivative aluminium […]
The World Trade Organization announced the close of proceedings in the trade dispute between the governments of the United States, Mexico, and Canada late last week in recognition of the May agreement by the United States to end duties on imports of aluminium and steel from both Mexico and Canada. Noting the May 23rd agreement […]
A request from California electric automaker Tesla Inc to the U.S. Commerce Department to waive 10-percent tariffs on imported aluminium from Japan was approved earlier this month, allowing the company to continue using the metal for battery cells at the Gigafactory in Nevada. According to documents posted two months ago, the Commerce Department acted upon […]
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 ...