CBAM Costs: Is the Commission Making EU Companies Foot the Bill? – 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 use of default values. Finland has now clearly criticised this approach in a statement. Preliminary conclusion: The Commission is deliberately making EU companies pay inflated CBAM costs. Source