ACT NOW: EU Commission Wants to Hear Opinion on Steel Tariffs – Stainless Espresso

Dec 4, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

4 December 2025 – The European Commission wants to hear your opinion on the proposed steel tariffs of 50% and the reduction of import quotas by more than 45%. SMEs are now called upon to stand up against the Commission’s proposal. The consultation will...

EU Steel Tariffs and Import Quotas: ITRE Committee Issues Opinion – Stainless Espresso

Dec 3, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

3 December 2025 – The industry-policy ITRE Committee in the European Parliament issues its opinion on the draft report and the proposed amendments to the regulation “Addressing the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel...

As Long as It’s a Leak: Draft Report on Steel Tariffs – Stainless Espresso

Dec 1, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

1 December 2025 – These days, everyone seems eager to be the first to receive a “leak” from one of the political bodies of the European Union – including the supposed leak of a draft report on the planned EU steel tariffs. Nationalisation:...

Protectionism and Tariffs Are Driving Companies Out of Germany – Stainless Espresso

Nov 28, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

28 November 2025 – The government of the United Kingdom has officially classified the “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” planned there as a “new tax.” Manufacturing companies are leaving Germany: the main reasons are rising...

Steel Import Quotas at 2013 Levels Simply Economically Detached – Stainless Espresso

Nov 27, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

27 November 2025 – The Commission wants to turn back time to 2013 with its steel tariffs and import quotas – even though the European economy has grown by more than 19% since 2013. The 1994 GATT Agreement, to which the EU is also bound, does not allow such...

CBAM Costs: Is the Commission Making EU Companies Foot the Bill? – Stainless Espresso

Nov 26, 2025 | 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...

EU: U.S. Government with Clear Demand on Steel Tariffs – Stainless Espresso

Nov 25, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

25 November 2025 – The European Union is desperately seeking an exemption to the U.S. Section 232 steel tariffs. Now the U.S. government has made a demand that Brussels has already rejected. Instead, EU Trade Commissioner Šefčovič would prefer to go explain the...

Small German Steel Summit – A Declaration of War on the Downstream – Stainless Espresso

Nov 24, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

24 November 2025 – Following the large German steel summit, a small steel summit has now followed in Berlin, which turned once again with renewed and once more one-sided demands to domestic politics and feels like an open declaration of war on the downstream...

Steel Tariffs: EU Steel Lobby Calls for Breach of Democracy – Stainless Espresso

Nov 21, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

21 November 2025 – Aluminium: Good Exports, Bad Exports, or How the Commission Applies Double Standards. The steel lobby and the trade unions are currently exerting massive pressure on the European Parliament and the Member States and are calling for a breach of...

CBAM: Were the Specific Embedded Emissions Produced by EU NGOs? – Stainless Espresso

Nov 20, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

20 November 2025 – Is the European Commission letting politically motivated industry associations do its work on CBAM? Were the Country Specific Embedded Emissions for steel created exclusively from data provided by European non-governmental organisations? In...