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Rare Earths, No Breakthrough After Trump’s Visit To China: Export Controls Remain The New Scenario
US President Donald Trump’s visit to China, between May 13 and May 15, did not bring significant changes to China’s export control regime on rare earths. Although market attention was focused on the possibility of an easing of restrictions, the document published by...
The Indian Flat Steel Market Stops After The Increases: Stable Prices, More Active Exports And Demand Still Fragile
The Indian flat steel market paused further price increases in the week ended Friday May 15, with domestic quotations remaining largely stable and demand still not solid enough to support another upward movement. After weeks in which steel mills had tried to defend or...
The Tungsten Market Changes Tone After The Extreme Rally
The global tungsten market is entering a more complex and less linear phase after months of exceptional increases. In the week ended Friday May 15, European ferro-tungsten prices continued to weaken, while the seaborne market for ammonium paratungstate, or APT,...
Middle East Aluminium Smelters Seek Alternative Routes To The Strait Of Hormuz
Middle East aluminium smelters are trying to bypass the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, now blocked for about two and a half months, through alternative logistics solutions both to export metal and to import alumina, the essential raw material to feed primary...