Jan 29, 2026 | Stainless Espresso
29 January 2026 – Poland is calling on the EU to intervene against Ukraine’s steel scrap export ban-despite having sought to restrict steel imports from Ukraine itself as recently as October 2025. Copper prices surge sharply, while aluminium and nickel...
Jan 28, 2026 | Stainless Espresso
28 January 2026 – The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament approved the draft report on the new steel tariffs and import quotas proposed by the European Commission on Tuesday. Commodity markets: aluminium prices in Asia are rising...
Jan 27, 2026 | Stainless Espresso
27 January 2026 – India and the EU agree on a free trade agreement. But is this really the “mother of all deals,” or did the Commission simply need an urgent success story? Source
Jan 26, 2026 | Stainless Espresso
26 January 2026 – Nickel futures traded on the SHFE and LME opened the week largely unchanged and stable. Last week, the EU submitted a reform proposal to the WTO in Geneva. And is the European Commission still democratically legitimate? Source
Jan 23, 2026 | Stainless Espresso
23 January 2026 – The Indonesian Nickel Miners Association (APNI) has expressed concern that planned mining quotas and actual demand are diverging significantly. Mercosur: a motion of censure against the European Commission highlights growing dissatisfaction...
Jan 22, 2026 | Stainless Espresso
22 January 2026 – EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič wants to finally wield a tariff hammer of his own and is now proposing to effectively dilute the World Trade Organization’s Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) principle. Also: after tensions over Greenland...
