{"id":473286,"date":"2026-03-13T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:14:13","slug":"lochaber-smelters-first-us-exports-after-trump-tariff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473286\/","title":{"rendered":"Lochaber smelter&#8217;s first US exports after Trump tariff changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Uppington, managing director of Alvance British Aluminium, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve increased production by around 10% in recent months in response to changing global trade flows following US tariffs, allowing us to enter the US markets for the first time as well as supplying existing and new customers in the UK and Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;While the conflict in the Middle East has pushed aluminium prices higher, it has also contributed to rising energy costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because aluminium production is very energy intensive, higher UK electricity prices currently offset the benefit of stronger metal prices, meaning we continue to cap production broadly in line with our self-generated power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK Minister for Trade Chris Bryant said it was &#8220;fantastic&#8221; Alvance British Aluminium had taken full advantage of &#8220;trade wins&#8221; secured by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the UK was the only country in the world to secure a 25% tariff on steel and aluminium tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Uppington, managing director of Alvance British Aluminium, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve increased production by around 10% in recent months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}