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Us Aluminium Scrap Market Strengthens As Primary Prices And Export Demand Rise, While Secondary Alloys Lag
The US market for smelter-grade and mill-grade aluminium scrap continued to strengthen in the week to Thursday January 8, supported by rising primary aluminium prices, record Midwest premiums and robust export demand. By contrast, secondary aluminium alloy prices...
Minor Metals Rally After The Holidays: Apt And Manganese Surge Amid Tight Supply And Futures Strength
The full resumption of market activity after the winter break has triggered a renewed wave of price pressure across minor metals, with ammonium paratungstate (APT) and manganese ore emerging as the clear leaders of the latest rally. In both markets, price gains have...
China’s Steel Industry Heads Into 2026: Trade Barriers Rise, Direct Exports Slow, Indirect Flows Cushion The Impact
After a record-breaking year for overseas shipments in 2025, China’s steel industry is entering 2026 facing a far more challenging and complex environment, shaped by intensifying global trade barriers, tighter domestic policy controls, and a shifting pattern of global...
Eu Steel Trq Quotas Exhausted At Record Speed As Cbam Makes Imports Increasingly Unviable
Quarterly tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for a wide range of steel product imports into the European Union for the January–March 2026 period have already been exhausted by several suppliers, less than two weeks into the new reporting quarter. The rapid take-up highlights...