Jul 30, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
30 July 2025 – EU member state France has called on the European Commission to find a successor to the EU safeguard measure on steel and would like to turn back the clock on steel with unrealistic expectations. Commodity prices are trending sideways. US...
Jul 29, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
29 July 2025 – What do the EU Trade Commissioner, the Prime Minister of Saarland and the German Tagesschau news programme have in common? When it comes to steel, they either display fundamental ignorance, have mental lapses or deliberately spread polemical red...
Jul 28, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
28 July 2025 – In the end, the head of all Brussels EU bureaucrats had to step in herself to reach a deal in Scotland in the tariff dispute with US President Donald Trump, which appears to have been quite expensive for the EU overall. Asian commodity prices...
Jul 25, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
July 25, 2025 – An agreement may still be reached in the trade dispute between the United States and the European Union. However, there will be no exemptions for steel and aluminum, and a base tariff rate of 15% will apply. Now EU faces problems with its second...
Jul 24, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
24 July 2025 – The EU Commission has been monitoring exports of scrap (steel, aluminum, copper) out of Europe since yesterday. And has already made a judgment on scrap exports without a formal investigation! Asian stainless steel futures and spot market prices...
Jul 23, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
23 July 2025 – US President Donald Trump signed three new trade deals yesterday (Tuesday) with Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines. At the same time, the EU is becoming increasingly marginalised in the negotiations and is resorting to polemical phrases,...
