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US TRUCK EXPORTS IN FIRING LINE AS EUROPEAN UNION THREATENS RETALIATION OVER TRUMP METAL DUTIES
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has warned that is prepared to impose temporary safeguard duties on imports into the EU of USA-made trucks, as it launched its reaction to the erection of American import duties on aluminium and steel imports.
The EU executive, the European Commission, has released a draft list of products which may in future attract retaliatory duties, and this includes trucks weighing under five tonnes, above and below 2,500cc engine capacity, which are diesel and semi-diesel.…
METHANE HYDRATES STORE VAST AMOUNTS OF NATURAL GAS – BUT THEIR EXPLOITATION REMANS UNECONOMIC FOR NOW
International activity to understand and potentially extract natural gas from methane hydrates has intensified since 2010 with the continuation and launch of new research and development (R&D) projects and field production tests offshore and onshore, as shown in a new overview by Carolyn D Ruppel, chief of the gas hydrates project at the United States Geological Survey (USGS).(1)…
SHIFT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ELECTRIC CARS WILL SHIFT MINERAL MARKETS FOR DECADES, CONFERENCE HEARS
THE GROWTH in global renewable energy and electric car markets is already changing the face of the industrial minerals sector and it will continue to shape demand for years to come, a senior Toronto-based industry conference has been told.
Vancouver-based Gianni Kovacevic, CEO of CopperBank Resources, told this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention that mineral resource companies needed to analyse the likely impact of climate change, and how it feeds into energy and transport infrastructure spending and related environmental regulation.…
BATTERY MINERALS MAYBE IN SHORT SUPPLY, PDAC WARNED
INVESTORS at this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention have been voicing concerns that the supply of key minerals used to make batteries may not be able to keep pace with demand.
At an investors forum dealing with energy materials and technologies, a series of graphite, cobalt and manganese miners highlighted the increasing demand for the minerals, and the lack of sufficient supplies to meet future expectations.…
GREEN ENERGY MARKETS PROMOTE CONFIDENCE AMONG PDAC EXECUTIVES, WHATEVER TRUMP TWEETS
WHILE global politics, whether through the protectionism of Donald Trump, or the uncertainty of Brexit, have the potential to chill the global minerals industry, a recent major conference in Canada showed that market demand can often outweigh concerns about regulation.
A noticeably more positive outlook was evident this year, as the global mining community gathered in Toronto for the 2018 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, trade show and investors exchange.…
EUROFER WELCOMES LIKELY STEEL DUTY EXEMPTION
Charles de Lusignan, communications manager for European iron and steel association Eurofer noted the comments made by USTR Mr Lighthizer at the US Senate: “We will only believe it when we see it on a paper signed, but it goes beyond rumour, it is almost fact, it would appear that it will be an instant temporary exclusion in the same vein as applied to Mexico and Canada.”…
US GLASS AND CERAMICS EXPORTS IN FIRING LINE AS EUROPEAN UNION THREATENS RETALIATION OVER TRUMP DUTIES
THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned that is prepared to impose temporary safeguard duties on imports into the EU of USA-made glass and ceramics, as it launched its reaction to new American import duties on aluminium and steel imports.
The Commission, has released a draft list of products which may in future attract retaliatory safeguard duties.…
EU DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST US STEEL AND ALUMINIUM TARIFFS AT TRILATERAL MEETING
THE PROSPECT of a grand bargain between the European Union (EU), the USA and Japan, involving action to reduce steel and aluminium overproduction, but abiding by global trading laws, has been raised.
An unusual Brussels meeting on Saturday (March 10) between EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japan’s minister for economy and industry, Hiroshige Seko, debated such a plan, and agreed to continue discussions.…
CANADIAN AND MEXICAN METAL DUTY WAIVERS MAY NOT SURVIVE NAFTA TALKS
WHILE United States President Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium on March 8 included a waiver for Canadian and Mexican exporters, his administration continues to stress this relief could be temporary.
In the March 8 presidential proclamation imposing the steel duties, Trump stressed “ongoing discussions with these countries” alongside his decision “to exempt steel articles imports from these countries from the tariff, at least at this time”. …
TRUMP’S STEEL AND ALUMINIUM DUTY THREATS COULD UNDERMINE KEY NAFTA TALKS
PRESIDENT Donald Trump today (March 5) signalled to Canada and Mexico that he would use his planned imposition of import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium as a bargaining chip to wring concessions in the ongoing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation.…