May 23, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
23 May 2025 – The EU Parliament yesterday voted in favor of the Commission’s proposed amendments to the Carbon Border Tax CBAM and once again decided in favor of its multinational conglomerates and against the economic interests of small and medium-sized...
May 22, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
22 May 2025 – The European Union’s economy has been struggling with trade barriers in its single market for 30 years. Commission therefore presents new Single Market Strategy – but is it enough to make intra-European trade easier? Twelve states are...
May 21, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
21 May 2025 – According to the European Commissions Flash Consumer Confidence Indicator, consumer confidence in the European Union and the eurozone both rose by 1.4 points in May, but remains below the long-term average. Once again, this example shows how bad...
May 20, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
20 May 2025 – The European Commission presented its spring forecast the EU for 2025 yesterday, pointing mainly to external causes for a mixed outlook. It ignored its own responsibility for the figures now available, particularly with regard to bureaucracy and...
May 19, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
19 May 2025 – Like steel, cement is considered a particularly CO2-intensive building material and is produced in the EU with outdated and inefficient plants, just like almost 56% of domestic steel makers. However, it appears that large companies are lacking the...
May 16, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
16 May 2025 – A major Italian steel association has criticised imports of slabs by European steel mills and called for the introduction of trade defence measures like those for coil and plate. Are EU scrap exports not as dramatic as assumed? Source
May 15, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
15 May 2025 – India has notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it intends to suspend trade concessions to the United States and impose tariffs on selected US products in response to the adjusted US Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium....
May 14, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
14 May 2025 – If the European steel lobby is to be believed, the EU peace project is on the brink of collapse because domestic steel makers are once again facing an existential threat. Nickel and aluminium prices rose again on Wednesday, with stainless steel and...
May 13, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
13 May 2025 – Over-subsidised: ‘Not every steel mill may have to survive’. A controversial approach to achieving a healthy steel industry in Europe. Stainless steel prices in Asia continue to rise. Reports from the three major EU stainless steel producers show...
May 12, 2025 | Stainless Espresso
12 May 2025 – Nickel prices on the Asian SHFE rose significantly today, Monday. LME nickel also rose again at the start of trading. US and China approach each other in the tariff dispute, suspension and drastic reduction of mutual tariffs planned. Source
