U.S. Commerce Department Debuts New Web Portal For Section 232 Exclusion Requests
The United States Commerce Department yesterday launched an online portal for receiving product-specific exclusion requests for aluminium and steel products...
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U.S. Commerce Department Grants Tariff Waiver For Specialty Japanese Aluminium
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...
Spat Over Aluminium And Steel Tariffs Between U.S. And Russia Not Likely To Be Resolved This Year: Russia’s Economic Minister
The ongoing conflict between Moscow and Washington, D.C. over tariffs on aluminium and steel is not likely to come to...
Trump Tariffs On Aluminium Cost Beer Industry 40,000 Jobs: Beer Trade Groups
The Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium have cost the beer industry dearly, leading to the loss of 40,000...
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India’s Government Again Postpones Retaliatory Tariffs As Talks On Section 232 Continue
India’s government has again delayed enacting retaliatory tariffs against United States goods, pushing back the first possible date for the duty to May 16. The proposed tariffs were first queued up last June in response to the Trump Administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel. Initially set to begin last summer, the measure has […]
Aluminium Tariffs Are Bad, But Quotas Are Worse: Alcoa CEO Harvey
In light of reports that negotiators from the United States government are pushing for quotas to replace the Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel on imports from Mexico and Canada, Alcoa’s top man echoed sentiments made by negotiators in opposition to a quota system late last week. In an earnings call last week, Alcoa […]
Mexico’s Economy Secretary Asks U.S. Government For Exemption From Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
The Mexican government formally requested relief from the Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel from the United States government late last week according to the country’s economic secretary. Secretary of the Economy Graciela Marquez Colin said Monday that she made the request of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in the course of the […]
Time For Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs Has Passed: Canada Foreign Minister Freeland
As an accord has already been reached on the new trade agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland expressed her opinion that the leverage given Washington, D.C. by the Section 232 aluminium and steel tariffs is no longer needed. Speaking to reporters late last week in the U.S. […]
Quotas On Aluminium And Steel Imports Not A Suitable Replacement For Section 232 Tariffs: Mexico’s Economy Minister
Continuing to argue that tariffs on imports of its country’s aluminium and steel are unjustified, Mexico’s government said yesterday that replacing those tariffs with quotas was not an acceptable substitute for total elimination of the impediment on trade. “The Mexican government’s position is that the application of the 232 on steel and aluminum is not […]
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 ...
