Commodity Talk: Will Trump tariff on steel, aluminium trigger dumping into India? Naveen Mathur of Anand Rathi explains
India is not a major exporter of metals to the US, but any global price shift would surely impact the domestic pricing also, said Naveen Mathur, Director-Commodities & Currencies, Anand Rathi Share & Stock Brokers. We may see a glut with respect to the oversupply, he opined highlighting that the other countries may start dumping the goods into India. Edited excerpts:
Do you see a significant impact on global metal prices once the Trump tariffs come into force and while India is not a major metal exporter to the US, will it have a trickle-down effect on the domestic industry? As we all know, post Mr Trump's inauguration in mid of January, the markets have been pretty volatile largely because of the policies, the global uncertainties with respect to tariffs. The tariffs would definitely push up the metal prices in the US due to restricted imports. While the excess supply in the global markets, particularly China and the EU, may cause price fluctuations, India would definitely have an indirect impact or I should say it is a mix of direct and indirect impact.
India is not a major exporter of metals to the US, but any global price shift would surely impact the domestic pricing also. If Chinese producers or the European Union producers divert supplies to other nations, including India, we may see a glut with respect to the oversupply. The cost competitiveness also therefore would come down for the imports coming into India and therefore, we might see the oversupply impacting our domestic industry, particularly on the
