Week in review: Holding pattern or breaking point?
Premiums are spiking, tariffs are biting, and buyers are scrambling. This isn't normal, it's aluminum in chaos.
Category: Global Trade
The calm before the clause: When exchanges decide to intervene
Downstream players are left guessing which market signals are real and which are being quietly managed behind the scenes.
Week-in-review: Data dumps and price jumps
Between the macro results and tariff fallout, there's more than enough to unpack - the data dump was massive, prices went haywire, and the outlook got even foggier.
AMU PATH Fireside Chat: Bottlenecks and backchannels in the freight market
The kickoff session of Aluminum Market Update's fireside chat tackled the turbulence facing the freight market in an increasingly protectionist environment.
Aluminum imports: FTZ vs bonded warehouse - What you need to know
With new tariffs hitting hard, FTZs could be the pressure valve for downstream buyers who know how to play the game.
Markets are moving - but big tariff questions hang in the air
It is a clear sign that risk has re-entered the conversation, and buyers are already having to adjust. Again.
Tariff whiplash: 50% tariffs join the melt mix
Just when we thought we’d get a breather from tariffs news, President Trump has announced his intention to double tariffs on aluminum imports to 50% effective June 4th.
The courts pause Trump tariffs…. more uncertainty
Has Section 232 survived the latest legal challenge?
Aluminum in motion: What May 2025 means for your next move
May moved the market. Are you ready for June?
Liberation Day denied: Court overrules IEEPA tariffs
A federal trade court found that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Power Act (IEEPA) to justify tariffs early April and dubbed the “Liberation Day” tariffs was unconstitutional.