Canada Says “No Deal” To Aluminium And Steel Quotas In Exchange For Exemption From Trump Tariffs
According to sources at the heart of talks between the United States and Canadian governments, the likelihood of Ottawa accepting...
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Select South African Aluminium And Steel Producers Win Reprieve From Trump Tariffs
Certain aluminium and steel producers from the Republic of South Africa have been granted exemptions to the Trump adminstration’s blanket tariffs according to South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). According to the DTI, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued waivers...
US And Norwegian Governments Apply For WTO Dispute Resolution Panel For Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
The United States government has filed a request with the World Trade Organization to include a dispute resolution panel in...
Canadian Government Not Doing Enough To Protect Dominion’s SME’s From Trump Aluminium Tariffs: MP Ludwig
Canadian elected officials are warning that government programs put into place to protect the dominion’s aluminium and steel firms are...
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Bahrain In High-Level Talks With Trump Administration On Exemption From Aluminium Tariffs
The Kingdom of Bahrain may be close to winning an exemption from the Trump administration’s blanket tariffs on aluminium and steel. So say United States officials quoted in Bahrani media. Per domestic media, high-level representatives from the governments of both countries are ongoing, but neither side released further details of the status or nature of […]
Despite New Free Trade Deal With United States, Tariffs On Aluminium From Canada And Mexico Remain
Though the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico have reached a last-minute accord on free trade, the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel will remain in place for the foreseeable future. “There are problems specific to steel and aluminum relating to our national defense, and at this point of time, […]
United States Will Not Grant India Unconditional Pass On Section 232 Aluminium And Steel Tariffs
Despite the specter of retaliatory tariffs on United States products, the Trump administration has chosen not to grant exceptions to the Section 232 blanket aluminium and steel tariffs for producers from India. Assistant United States Trade Representative Mark Linscott spoke with his counterparts in the Indian government earlier this week in an effort at resolving […]
Ford Motors CEO: Trump Tariffs On Aluminium And Steel Will Cost Us US$1 Billion
Automotive manufacturers are feeling the heat from the Trump aluminium and steel tariffs as noted by Ford Motor Company’s CEO James Hackett, who said on Wednesday that his firm is expected to lose approximately US$1 billion to the measures over the next two years. “From Ford’s perspective the metals tariffs took about $1 billion in […]
Trump Tariffs Have Cost The Russian Economy US$600 Million So Far – Economic Minister Oreshkin
According to government estimates, the total damage done to the Russian economy by the Trump administration’s tariffs on aluminium and steel imports is US$600 million to date. Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin revealed the damage estimate in the course of an interview with state media last week. “We have already calculated the damage done […]
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 ...
