Category: Trade Policy and Tariffs

Aluminum Market Chatter from survey respondents.

Meir spoke last week during an AMU Community Chat on a wide range of topics affecting the aluminum market.

The EU's preparatory work on possible aluminum scrap export restrictions provides the starting point for examining why current European scrap flows to the US remain too small to materially affect either region's can sheet market.

This piece examines how U.S. and EU tariff structures are encouraging new forms of arbitrage and potential circumvention.

Robert DeFrancesco and Alan Price, trade attorneys with Wiley Law, discussed the impact tariffs have had on steel and aluminum markets, and what could happen if they are changed or repealed.

This is Part Two of a look at the commercial trucking sector and its impact on aluminum.

Contract talks for U.S. value-added aluminum products are reaching a critical stage, with billet, primary foundry alloys, and wire rod upcharges diverging as buyers and producers race to finalized 2026 pricing.

Current leadership is sticking to a conservative approach that optimizes its existing portfolio, while steadily improving the balance sheet.

Century Aluminum's shipments declined in Q3'25, but stronger lagged prices and tariffs position the company for a near-term earnings recovery.

The Millersburg site will add a production facility to Ball’s Pacific Northwest portfolio, just over a year after the company shuttered its can manufacturing plant in Kent, Washington.