Germany’s Industrial Policy: Focus on Old Giants Instead of New Ideas – Stainless Espresso

Oct 29, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

29 October 2025 – An expert report from Germany shows: It’s not China ruining Europe’s steel, but electricity prices. Asian base metals showed a stable sideways movement or slight gains on Wednesday. Source

EU: Tariffs Don’t Bring About Necessary Reforms – Stainless Espresso

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...

Base Metals Start the Week Stable and Friendly – Stainless Espresso

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...

Is the EU Trade Committee Heading for a Showdown with the U.S.? – Stainless Espresso

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...

Dispute Over Chinese Chipmaker: Is It Always Everyone Else’s Fault? – Stainless Espresso

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...

If Free EU CO2 Certificates Stay, CBAM Has to Go – Stainless Espresso

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,...