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,...

EU is the world’s largest scrap exporter – Stainless Espresso

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...

Do EU steel tariffs breach the Brexit Agreement? – Stainless Espresso

Oct 20, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

20 October 2025 – Do EU steel tariffs breach the Brexit Agreement? Not only we see it that way – British experts have now reached the same conclusion. There is no legal basis for the planned EU tariffs on steel in relation to the United Kingdom. German...

EU plans financial support for countries affected by CBAM – Stainless Espresso

Oct 17, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

17 October 2025 – The European Commission now wants to provide up to €200 billion in financial support to countries affected by the EU’s carbon border tax, CBAM, to help them decarbonise their industries – while European companies foot the bill....

Aluminium prices hit highest level of 2025 – Stainless Espresso

Oct 16, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

15 October 2025 – Aluminium prices have been on a steady upward path all year, hitting their highest level yet on the LME yesterday. While the EU pressures the US government to lift tariffs on steel derivatives, it simultaneously plans to impose new import...

Brussels’ Steel Tariff Proposal Puts Europe’s Industrial Backbone at Risk – Press Release

Oct 15, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

Brussels / Berlin, 15 October 2025 – The European Commission’s new draft regulation on the successor to the EU Safeguard Measure on certain steel products is triggering strong criticism from European industry representatives. According to Gerber Group, the...

Steel: German Social Democrats call for nationalisation of steel mills – Stainless Espresso

Oct 15, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

15 October 2025 – Raise steel tariffs, expand CBAM, hand out billions in tax money as election gifts, nationalise steel mills: the Social Democrats (SPD) want to “save” Germany’s steel mills. But with their newly published position paper...