Tag: Aluminum

  • Metal Net Grows

    Comments close Thursday on 14 new Section 232 derivative categories that would pull tubas, floor safes and propane cylinders into the metals tariff net, and the inclusions machine shows no sign of slowing WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 American importers have until Thursday to tell the Commerce Department why brass-wind musical instruments, floor safes and filled…

  • Metals Deal Off

    The package that died in Washington would have halved steel and aluminum duties, cut auto tariffs to 15 per cent and opened formal CUSMA talks. What Canadian producers lost, and what they keep HAMILTON, Ontario, August 22, 2026 The tariffs that made headlines on Saturday morning were not the ones that matter most to Canadian…

  • Steel At 25%

    Negotiators are reported to have settled on halving Section 232 metals duties for Canada, but a volume cap near four million tonnes and unresolved treatment of derivatives mean the relief will be narrower than the headline number suggests HAMILTON, Ontario, August 21, 2026 – The single most consequential number in the Canada-United States trade package…

  • Metals Halved

    Negotiators have sketched a tentative arrangement cutting Section 232 steel and aluminium duties to 25 per cent and auto tariffs to 15 per cent, but derivative products, exclusions and aluminium traceability remain unresolved WASHINGTON, August 20, 2026 The most commercially significant element of the emerging Canada-United States trade arrangement is not the 50 per cent…

  • Tomago Rescue

    Canberra and New South Wales have committed A$2.5 billion over a decade to keep Australia’s largest aluminium smelter alive, a bailout that lays bare the accelerating global race to subsidise strategic metals. SYDNEY, August 13, 2026. Australia’s federal government and the New South Wales state government on Thursday jointly announced a rescue package worth A$2.5…

  • Metal Quotas

    Ottawa has revived a proposal to cap Canadian steel and aluminum shipments to the United States in exchange for relief from Section 232 duties, a managed-trade bargain that would trade the principle of open access for the predictability producers say they can no longer find. OTTAWA, Aug. 13, 2026 Canadian negotiators have put export quotas…

  • Ottawa’s Offer

    Reported concession package would trade Canadian tariff relief on American vehicles, changes to dairy quota administration and the return of U.S. alcohol for cuts to metals duties, with nine days left on the Section 338 clock OTTAWA, Aug. 10, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) – Canadian negotiators have put a defined package of concessions in front…

  • Metal Duty Push

    Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more steel, aluminum and copper derivative categories, from brass instruments and floor safes to tanker trailers, with comments due August 27 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 The United States Department of Commerce is proposing to extend Section 232 duties to 14 additional categories of steel, aluminum and copper derivative…

  • 232 Net Widens

    Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more metal derivative articles, from aluminum powder and brass instruments to tanker trailers and filled steel cylinders, with public comments due August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has proposed extending Section 232 metals tariffs to 14 additional categories…

  • Metal Quota Bid

    Ottawa revives tariff rate quotas on steel and aluminum exports in a bid to buy relief from Section 232 duties, even as officials dispute how close the two sides really are with 12 days left before a new 50 percent tariff wave lands. OTTAWA, Aug. 7, 2026. Canadian negotiators have put export quotas on steel…