{"id":7361,"date":"2026-03-20T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/what-do-the-us-tariffs-mean-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:01:31","slug":"what-do-the-us-tariffs-mean-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/news\/what-do-the-us-tariffs-mean-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"What do the US tariffs mean for Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Trump's New 50% Tariffs Reshuffle the Global Aluminum Landscape<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Since the introduction of the new tariffs, imports of primary aluminum into the U.S. have fallen by about 26%.<\/strong> At the same time, imports of aluminium scrap have increased by 30 to 40%.<\/strong>
The reason is simple: scrap metal is not covered by the levy, and American smelters pay higher prices than the rest of the world. <\/p>\n

The result is a remarkable shift. While Midwest Premium prices rose by 164%,<\/strong> the U.S. smelting industry experienced a resurgence.
Companies such as Century<\/strong> and Alcoa<\/strong> restarted shut down capacity, and there is even talk of the first new aluminum smelter in the US in 45 years<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Europe \u2013 scrap loss, metal surplus<\/h3>\n

For Europe, the rate increase has the opposite effect.
Exports of European aluminium scrap to the United States increased by around 270% in 2025<\/strong> \u2013 a fivefold increase compared to the previous year.
Recyclers are now warning of a shortage of secondary raw materials.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the European market is flooded with primary aluminium<\/strong> that can no longer be exported to the US.
Major producers from Canada, Australia and the Middle East<\/strong> have diverted their deliveries to European ports, including Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

Canada \u2013 looking for new markets<\/h3>\n

Canada, for years the main supplier of aluminum to the United States, has lost a large part of its traditional sales.
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of Canadian aluminium are now finding their way to the Netherlands, Italy and Asia<\/strong>, markedly shifting the trade balance within Europe.<\/p>\n

Middle East, South America and Asia \u2013 redistribution of flows<\/h3>\n

The effects are also significant outside North America.
Producers in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Brazil<\/strong> are shifting their exports to Asia and Europe.
Some companies are going one step further: the Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA)<\/strong> announced billion-dollar investments in new smelting capacity in the US itself, to circumvent the tariff barrier.<\/p>\n

China, on the other hand, is struggling with rising scrap prices, as U.S. buyers pay better than Chinese importers.
In India<\/strong> , the industry is expanding \u2013 Vedanta<\/strong> is increasing production at BALCO, and Hindalco<\/strong> is increasing output to take advantage of the changed market.<\/p>\n

The 2025 U.S. tariff hike has not only changed the direction of global trade, but also upset the balance between primary and secondary aluminum<\/strong> .
The consequences \u2013 higher prices in the US, lower premiums in Europe, shifting trade routes and new investments \u2013 mark a new phase in the global aluminium industry.<\/p>\n

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How Trump’s New 50% Tariffs Reshuffle the Global Aluminum Landscape Since the introduction of the new tariffs, imports of primary aluminum into the U.S. have fallen by about 26%. At the same time, imports of aluminium scrap have increased by 30 to 40%.The reason is simple: scrap metal is not covered by the levy, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euralco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}