Tag: Trade policy
Metal Packaging Europe warns over EU steel safeguards
Metal Packaging Europe (MPE) has warned that new EU steel safeguard measures risk undermining the competitiveness of downstream manufacturers, urging policymakers to balance support...
MPMA welcomes UK government’s revision of steel tariff-free quotas
The UK Government’s decision to refine its approach and bring packaging steel tariff-free quotas in line with other sectors has been welcomed by the...
US aluminium trade body calls for action on overcapacity
At a public hearing on Section 301 investigations, the Aluminum Association has called on the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to...
CMI to pursue trade actions to protect US agriculture and canmakers
The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) will be stepping up its work to protect US-made goods and cans following the US administration’s rejection of their...
MPE says fast revision of EU trade steel measure is urgently...
Metal Packaging Europe (MPE) has called for an urgent revision of the proposed EU steel trade measure scope after adoption.
In a statement, the body...
Concern over proposed EU steel safeguards
Associations of steel-using industries, including Metal Packaging Europe (MPE), have issued a joint statement outlining concerns over the European Commission’s proposal to protect the...
IMDPA: A more harmonised trade policy is needed for the canmaking...
The US needs more domestic aluminium and steel production, but current tariff policies are making it difficult to achieve that goal, industry executives have...
Trade measures damaging US metal packaging industry, says Budway
President of the US-based Can Manufacturers Institute Robert Budway roundly condemned trade barriers in his talk on trade policy and global competitiveness at the...
