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...

Is Sweden’s green steel mill facing collapse? – Stainless Espresso

Oct 14, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

14 October 2025 – Most European primary steel producers have already abandoned the idea of green steel production, effectively calling the EU Green Deal into question. Now, a Swedish project to produce “sustainable” green steel may also be in...

Stainless steel: Only contingents in the EU from mid-2026? – Stainless Espresso

Oct 13, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

13 October 2025 – Are EU stainless steel mills planning to sell only on a contingents basis from 2026 in response to the European Commission’s new steel protection plans? Meanwhile, a fire at a US aluminium plant has halted 40% of the country’s...

EU Steel Tariff Plan: Sharp criticism from public society – Stainless Espresso

Oct 10, 2025 | Stainless Espresso

10 October 2025 – Criticism of the recently presented EU Steel Tariff Plan is mounting rapidly. Is France behind the idea that tariff-rate quotas should primarily benefit large corporations? Is the EU’s proposed Melt and Pour rule even feasible? Meanwhile,...