Week in Review: Electric Vehicles and Global Trade Disputes

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Before we head into the holiday weekend, let’s take one last look at the week that was:

It was a busy week for the Department of Commerce, which issued a ruling on Chinese cast iron soil pipe fittings.
Prior to the approval of the GOP tax bill, our Stuart Burns wrote about Europeans’ reactions to the tax reform discussion in the U.S.
The electric vehicle industry is on the rise in India, Sohrab Darabshaw writes.
The Fed increased interest rates recently, but how is the U.S. dollar doing? Our Irene Martinez Canorea wrote about trends in the U.S. dollar this year.
What will the surge in electric vehicle interest do for base metals?
The U.S. and the World Trade Organization are a bit at odds.
Aluminum’s excellent 2017 has been tempered somewhat by a price pullback of late.
China recently decided to boost steel products by cutting export taxes, a decision that is sure to frustrate producers around the world already concerned about global oversupply.
In a second post on the subject, Martinez Canorea expanded on the connection between base metals and electric vehicles.