Tag: CBAM

  • CBAM Goes Deep

    The first political trilogue on extending Europe’s carbon border levy to downstream goods opened in Strasbourg on October 20, with Parliament pushing for more than twice the product coverage the Commission proposed STRASBOURG, October 22, 2026 European Union negotiators opened the first political trilogue on extending the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream products on…

  • UK Carbon Gap

    Britain’s carbon border levy will cost importers a fraction of the European equivalent when it starts in 2027, and European steelmakers are already warning that the divergence creates a leakage route into the single market LONDON, October 22, 2026 The United Kingdom has published the indicative calculation values that will underpin its Carbon Border Adjustment…

  • CETA Dividend

    Three months into the India-UK trade agreement the early numbers are strong, but a British carbon border levy arriving in January threatens to take back part of what the tariff cuts gave NEW DELHI AND LONDON, OCTOBER 16, 2026. The India-United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is delivering measurable trade growth three months after…

  • Ankara Carbon

    Turkey and the EU agree to cooperate on the carbon border levy as Turkish steel exports to the bloc fall 21.7 percent and Ankara presses for equal treatment under the Made in EU regime BRUSSELS AND ANKARA, OCTOBER 16, 2026. Turkey and the European Union have agreed to open formal cooperation on the Carbon Border…

  • Jakarta Braces

    Indonesia’s Trade Ministry readies contingency measures as European and British steel barriers rise to 50 percent, while Jakarta simultaneously races to sign a free trade agreement with the bloc imposing them JAKARTA, 17 October 2026. Indonesia’s Trade Ministry is preparing contingency measures to blunt the impact of European Union and United Kingdom steel tariffs that…

  • 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…