Tag: CBAM

  • CBAM On Trial

    A WTO panel will now examine whether Europe’s carbon border levy and the free allowances underpinning its own emissions market comply with the rules, in the first full legal test of climate-linked border measures as the definitive CBAM regime takes financial effect GENEVA / BRUSSELS, 6 October 2026 – The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement…

  • Carbon On Trial

    A World Trade Organization panel will examine whether the European Union’s carbon border levy is a climate measure or a trade barrier, and eighteen members have joined to watch, in the first multilateral test of carbon tariffs GENEVA, 3 OCTOBER 2026 The question that has hung over climate trade policy for five years is now…

  • CBAM Bites

    Eramet says Indonesian nickel pig iron has effectively lost the European market as the carbon border levy enters its first year of real charging JAKARTA and PARIS, September 30, 2026 / The European Union’s carbon border adjustment mechanism has produced its first clear casualty in the base metals trade. Eramet, the French mining and metals…

  • CBAM Bites

    Traders at Istanbul’s flat steel conference put a number on Europe’s carbon border charge for the first time this week, roughly 10 euros a tonne for Indian material carrying default values, and the number lands as a permanent line in the cost stack rather than a compliance footnote ISTANBUL, SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 Carbon and quota…

  • CBAM Lag Bites

    Europe’s carbon border charge has yet to show up fully in steel prices because pre-emptive stockpiles are still being worked off, and distributors say the reckoning is coming WARSAW, 20 September 2026 – The European carbon border levy has been law for long enough to have changed prices, and it has not changed them as…

  • CBAM Goes Wide

    European Parliament votes to pull hundreds of downstream steel and aluminium goods into the carbon border levy, and Europe’s metals supply chain says the fix is still only half built BRUSSELS, 19 September 2026 – Europe’s carbon border tariff is about to stop being a raw materials instrument. On 15 September the European Parliament voted…

  • Delhi Quota Row

    India’s commerce ministry says the new trade agreement with the European Union shields more than 80 per cent of Indian steel exports from Brussels quotas and carbon rules, while industry warns the agreement’s own annex may cut guaranteed access in sixteen product categories NEW DELHI, 18 September 2026. India’s commerce ministry moved on Thursday to…

  • EU Widens CBAM

    European Parliament votes to extend the carbon border levy from raw steel and aluminium into 457 finished and semi-finished product categories, pushing the bloc’s carbon tariff deep into fasteners, wire, springs and household goods STRASBOURG, September 17, 2026. The European Parliament has voted to extend the European Union’s carbon border levy to 457 downstream product…

  • India EU Pact

    India’s landmark free trade agreement with the European Union has entered its final approval stage in Brussels, setting up sweeping tariff cuts across autos, machinery, steel, textiles and pharmaceuticals. NEW DELHI, Sept. 14, 2026 India’s most consequential trade agreement in a generation moved decisively toward the finish line over the weekend, as the European Commission…

  • The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): What North American Exporters to Europe Need to Know

    The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a tariff-like duty imposed on certain carbon-intensive products imported into the European Union. Effective from January 1, 2026 (following a transitional period from 2023-2025), CBAM applies to imports of cement, iron and steel, aluminum, fertilizers, electricity, and hydrogen based on embedded carbon content. For North American exporters…