At the US-Canada border, aluminium is constantly on the move, but the direction of trade is far from balanced. In the first six months of 2026, the US imported 907,581.44 tonnes of primary aluminium from Canada, while exporting only 78,886.12 tonnes of semi-fabricated aluminium products such as...
Thailand has opened a new anti-dumping exporter review covering Chinese aluminium extrusions, with a provisional 21.94 per cent cash deposit rate set for the applicant. Thailand's Department of Foreign Trade has initiated a new exporter review covering aluminium extrusions from China, adding...
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Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu said the commerce ministry is in favour of increasing import duties on primary aluminium and aluminium scrap with a view to support local producers, PTI reports. “That is a proposal to protect our domestic industry. The proposal is under examination and...
Canada seemed to have been all ears to the tariff exemption request from the construction industry in British Columbia in November. British Columbia is the westernmost province in Canada that depends primarily on imported metal. On Wednesday, December 19, Canada reportedly announced that it would...
On Monday, December 17, India yet again deferred enforcing retaliatory duties on 29 imported products from the US worth US$235 million by another 45 days. The implementation of the duty hike has been postponed until January 31, 2019, according to a notification by the finance ministry. In June,...
According to an announcement from China’s Ministry of Finance on Friday, the country will temporarily remove additional 25 per cent tariff on U.S.-made light vehicles and auto parts starting Jan. 1, 2019 for a period of 90 days. The announcement was a follow up on the truce in the trade war between...
India once again is likely to postpone retaliatory tariffs on 29 imported products from the US worth US$235 million to January 31, 2019. This would be the fourth time that India is deferring the duty. A senior government official told Moneycontrol “The implementation of higher import duty is likely...
The American Primary Aluminum Association (APAA) in collaboration with Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) and the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) addressed the economic effects of Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs in a presentation at the...
The latest data from US Geological Survey indicates that the total aluminium supply in the United States (Primary production, secondary recovery, and imports for consumption) stood at an estimated 7.6 million tonnes through September 2018, down 3% over the same period of 2017, where the supply...
US companies have paid tariff duties of US$ 6.2 billion in October. The October tariff collections registered a 104% jump YoY from October 2017 amount of US$3.1 million and up from US$ 4.4 billion in September 2018, mostly driven by President Trump’s tariffs on steel, aluminium, and Chinese goods....
A Press release from Aluminum Association confirms that The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) determined that the unfairly-traded imports of common alloy aluminium sheet from China have harmed the business of U.S. producers. The U.S. Department of Commerce will impose antidumping duties...
India’s and Switzerland’s second request to set up a World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel, to examine its complaint against additional duties imposed by the US on imports of certain aluminium and steel products, has been approved by the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB). “Nine dispute panels have now...
As the U.S. and China have entered a 90-day truce in the current trade war, White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow expected that China could immediately slash its vehicle tariffs on cars imported from the U.S. He believed the immediate after action could be a rolling back of 40 per cent tariffs...
India’s primary aluminium exports have recorded a 21 per cent increase in H1 (April-September period) of FY 2018-19. Industry data shows that in HI of FY 2018-19, exports of aluminium ingots reached 772,000 tonnes in volumes, up from 638,000 tonnes in the corresponding period of the last financial...
The leaders of the world's two largest economies, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, met face-to-face on December 1 Saturday in Argentina, which was expected to temporarily halt an escalating tit-for-tat trade war. They agreed to a temporary trade cease-fire to allow time for...
The United Arab Emirates, one of the top aluminium exporters to the US, accounted for 10% of all aluminium imports by the US during the first nine months of 2018. The UAE exported 460,000 tonnes of crude metal and alloys, aluminium semi-finished products and scrap to the US during January-September...
As forecasted by Sinomach Automobile Co., China’s largest dealer of imported cars and light trucks, China’s light-vehicle imports are likely to drop by more than 5 per cent in 2019. This decline is attributed to an economy that is steadily losing steam and China’s continued trade disputes with the...
European automakers shares reportedly dropped on Thursday, November 29 followed by a warning of fresh US imported auto tariffs application before the end of the year. The warning came from one of the key European lawmakers. According to a report by Germany's Wirtschaftwoche, a business and...
Rising aluminium prices driven by aluminium import tariffs have affected Colorado’s craft beer industry, industry sources said. “It’s disruptive for sure and (it’s) increasing our costs,” said Dave Cole, owner of Epic Brewing. He said that the price of aluminium cans have jumped six to ten per...
According to a senior official of Mexican steel trade group Canacero, Mexico’s next government is willing to impose tariffs on US aluminium and steel in case the Trump administration continues the duties on imported metals from Mexico. Canacero Vice President Raul Gutierrez said on Monday, November...
