EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Points to Much Larger Fake Semi Trade Relocating to Vietnam
An article in the Wall Street Journal late last month brought to the wider public the issue of aluminium “transshipment,”...
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Zhongwang Fake Semis Prosecution May Slam The Door On Key Routes For U.S. Import Duty Avoidance
The global aluminium market has been watching the trials and travails of Chinese behemoth Zhongwang with intense interest for the past few weeks after the company and its founder Liu Zhongtian were brought up on criminal charges by the United States federal...
Possible Fake Semi Connection as Aluminium Exports Cascade out of Mexico for Vietnam in June
Mexican exports to Vietnam continued at a blistering pace in June, lending further credence to the notion that a stockpile...
Chinese Fake Semis Fleeing Mexico for Vietnam
According to reports obtained by Aluminium Insider, a significant flow of fake semis has been emanating over the past several weeks...
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Aluminium Semis Exports from China Still Down Despite MoM Increase in May
According to numbers recently released from the People’s Republic of China, aluminium semis exports rose in the month of May by 1.4% month-on-month and 2.9% year-on-year. The rise to 374,000 metric tons of exported semis is attributed to a corresponding rise in flat-rolled products by 5% month-on-month to 155,000 metric tons, and aluminium foil exports […]
Q1 Customs Data Shows China’s Illicit Trade in Fake Semis Continues to Grow
Customs data for the export of aluminium semis from the People’s Republic of China for the first quarter of this year are in. The numbers show an interesting trend – although the total year-on-year exports dropped, the flow into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam increased significantly. According to numbers obtained by Aluminium Insider, exports of […]
EXCLUSIVE – New Numbers Show China’s Continuing Trade in Fake Semis
New extruded aluminium numbers are out for Asia’s 2015 export-import market, and the data points to a continuing trend: a booming trade in the grey market of “fake semis.” As previously reported by Aluminium Insider, there is a thriving trade between major aluminium extruders in the People’s Republic of China and various countries in Southeast […]
EXCLUSIVE – Traffic in Fake Semis Surged Through Vietnam in 2015
According to data Aluminium Insider has obtained from a source with knowledge of the aluminium industry in the People’s Republic of China, the trade in semi-formed aluminium exported from the country rose by 600,000 metric tons in 2015, to 4.2 million metric tons, up from 3.6 million metric tons in 2014. However, it looks like that this […]
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 ...
