Protectionism and Tariffs Are Driving Companies Out of Germany – Stainless Espresso

Nov 28, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

28 November 2025 – The government of the United Kingdom has officially classified the “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” planned there as a “new tax.” Manufacturing companies are leaving Germany: the main reasons are rising...

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...