UK PM Boris Johnson Bullish After Aluminium Tariff Detente By Biden Administration
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is encouraged by the Biden Administration’s actions to date in ratcheting down barriers to imported...
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Century Aluminum Applauds Biden Administration For New Tariff On Russian Aluminium
The President and CEO of American aluminium smelter Century Aluminum came out in favor of the Biden Administration’s coming 200 percent additional tariff on imported Russian aluminium earlier this week. CEO Jesse Gary began by thanking the administration in a press release...
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...
Hope For Relief For United States Aluminium Exporters As United Kingdom Relaxes Tariffs On Other Goods
Hopes for progress toward an end to tariffs on United States aluminium assessed by the United Kingdom spring anew after...
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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 to the Trump Administration’s levying of tariffs on the dominion’s aluminium last month. Anonymous sources told The Globe and Mail in Toronto that the announcement would likely be either today or tomorrow that the Canadian […]
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 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 […]
Beer Industry Marks Beer Can Appreciation Day With Call For Aluminium Pricing Transparency
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 […]
Trump Administration Hikes Import Tariffs On Derivative Aluminium And Steel Imports
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 […]
WTO Ends Trade Section 232 Dispute Cases Between United States, Canada, And Mexico
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 […]
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 ...
