Oct 28, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
28 October 2025 – While Argentina calls for further reforms and deregulation, and Italy demands an urgent reform of the EU Green Deal, the recent demand from an importers’ association to extend EU steel tariffs to downstream products amounts to nothing...
Oct 27, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
October 27, 2025 – The prices for base metals on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) continued their stable sideways movement or recorded further gains on Monday, following a positive end to last week. Trade relations between China and the EU remain rather...
Oct 24, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
October 24, 2025 – The chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, Bernd Lange (SPD/S&D), appears ready to take a confrontational stance toward the United States over the EU-U.S. trade deal. Base metals: positive sideways...
Oct 23, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
23 October 2025 – Aluminum prices have continued to climb in recent days, surpassing USD 2,800 per ton on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a dispute over a Chinese chipmaker is raising questions: Is the EU once again blaming everyone else for the automotive...
Oct 22, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
22 October 2025 – The end of free allocation of EU ETS certificates had actually already been decided. But now, major European CO2 emitters are lobbying for an extension of these indirect multi-billion-euro subsidies. However: if the free certificates remain,...
Oct 21, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
21 October 2025 – The European Union is the largest exporter of steel scrap in the world – that is the conclusion of a recently published analysis by the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC). The main reason: EU primary steel producers do not want scrap in their...
