Mar 31, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
31 March 2025 – China’s industry is gaining momentum: the official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 50.5 points in March – the highest value in a year. Germany PMI points to improved situation. Olaf Scholz: ‘We do not consider tariffs...
Mar 28, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
28 March 2025 – Indonesian nickel ore prices jumped significantly on Friday. Prices for other nickel and stainless steel products are also rising. British Steel: Chinese parent company threatens to shut down after subsidy negotiations with the British government...
Mar 27, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
March 27, 2025 – Steel crisis in Germany or just a system with a method to collect state aid? US government wants to introduce car import tariffs of 25%. Source
Mar 26, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
26 March 2025 – The war of numbers has had the European Union firmly in its grip, and not just since the recently presented EU Steel and Metals Action Plan. Now the Verband Deutscher Metallhändler und Recycler e.V. (VDM) has caught the aluminium producer...
Mar 25, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
25 March 2025 – The European Commission today published the final results of the EU Safeguard Review. Even though the Commission has made some tightening, the EU steel lobby was not able to fully assert itself with its excessive demands – some product...
Mar 24, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
24 March 2025 – Demand for iron ore concentrates in China is robust, which has already led to a shortage in availability in some regions. Will reciprocal US tariffs be significantly more targeted? Source
Mar 21, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
21 March 2025 – In order to gain more leeway for negotiations with the US government, the European Commission has temporarily postponed the introduction of counter tariffs on US goods. Steel mills in the EU are once again complaining louder about market...
Mar 20, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
20 March 2025 – The rainy season in the Philippines is coming to an end and nickel ore prices there are rising sharply, followed by an even more drastic increase in freight costs for nickel ore. EU Steel and Metals Action Plan officially presented –...
Mar 19, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
19 March 2025 – The European Commission (EC) has published the legal framework for the authorised CBAM declarant with significant delays. However, important and central information on CBAM is still missing! Hang Seng Index on record course: China’s economy...
Mar 18, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
18 March 2025 – The European Commission’s recently ‘leaked’ draft ‘European Steel and Metals Action Plan’, which is currently being discussed in the media, is in many ways a rejection of innovation, new beginnings and the creation of new economic...
