Steel Import Quotas at 2013 Levels Simply Economically Detached – Stainless Espresso

Nov 27, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

27 November 2025 – The Commission wants to turn back time to 2013 with its steel tariffs and import quotas – even though the European economy has grown by more than 19% since 2013. The 1994 GATT Agreement, to which the EU is also bound, does not allow such...

CBAM Costs: Is the Commission Making EU Companies Foot the Bill? – Stainless Espresso

Nov 26, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

26 November 2025 – The “leaked” values for calculating CBAM costs have shown one thing: they are not only obviously invented or simply wrong in many cases, but also completely excessive and additionally marked up with a 30% penalty – for the...

EU: U.S. Government with Clear Demand on Steel Tariffs – Stainless Espresso

Nov 25, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

25 November 2025 – The European Union is desperately seeking an exemption to the U.S. Section 232 steel tariffs. Now the U.S. government has made a demand that Brussels has already rejected. Instead, EU Trade Commissioner Šefčovič would prefer to go explain the...

Small German Steel Summit – A Declaration of War on the Downstream – Stainless Espresso

Nov 24, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

24 November 2025 – Following the large German steel summit, a small steel summit has now followed in Berlin, which turned once again with renewed and once more one-sided demands to domestic politics and feels like an open declaration of war on the downstream...

Steel Tariffs: EU Steel Lobby Calls for Breach of Democracy – Stainless Espresso

Nov 21, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

21 November 2025 – Aluminium: Good Exports, Bad Exports, or How the Commission Applies Double Standards. The steel lobby and the trade unions are currently exerting massive pressure on the European Parliament and the Member States and are calling for a breach of...