Tag: Manufacturing
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Italy’s steel distribution association warns that service centres cannot pass on mill price increases and that European manufacturing faces progressive, irreversible weakening MILAN, 20 September 2026 – The clearest statement yet of what Europe’s steel trade policy is doing to the companies in the middle of the supply chain came this week not from Brussels…
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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…
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At a Warsaw industry meeting, European steel distributors call openly for the United States model of whole value chain protection and demand that Brussels commit to melt and pour origin rules WARSAW, 20 September 2026 – The European steel distribution sector has stopped arguing for open markets. At the EUROMETAL Regional Meeting Central Europe, held…
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The European Commission’s 44th annual trade defence report puts 232 measures in force at the end of 2025, covering roughly 637,000 manufacturing jobs, and reveals a surveillance apparatus built to catch trade diverted by other countries’ tariff walls. BRUSSELS, September 20, 2026 The European Union ended 2025 with 232 trade defence measures in force, opened…
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Brussels imposes emergency quotas and minimum import prices of up to 3,500 euros a tonne on electrical steel, transformer cores and laminations, protecting an entire value chain for the first time BRUSSELS, 20 September 2026 – The European Union has moved to rescue one of the last strategically critical steel products it still makes at…
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Europe’s new steel import regime has lifted domestic prices more than 16 per cent this year and pushed foreign competition down the value chain, where no tariff reaches it BRUSSELS, 19 September 2026 – The European Union set out in 2026 to defend its steelmakers, and by the measure it set itself the policy has…
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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…
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Stellantis tells its workers that trade policy has destroyed the business case for a 269-acre Ontario assembly plant, Unifor declares an impasse as the contract expires, and Ottawa discovers the limits of a tariff strategy that cannot keep a factory open. BRAMPTON, Ont., Sept. 20, 2026 The collective agreement covering more than 9,000 Stellantis workers…
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Global Affairs Canada concedes its import permit system buckled under an exceptional volume of steel applications, generating duplicate permits and exposing how thin Canadian steel quota has become OTTAWA, September 20, 2026 Canada’s steel import quota system failed under its own demand this week, and the government has acknowledged it. Global Affairs Canada issued a…
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Ottawa tops up its tariff response fund on the eve of the fall parliamentary sitting, pushing committed support past C$32 billion and signalling that Canada is settling in for a long trade war rather than rushing back to the table. OTTAWA, Sept. 20, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney committed an additional C$7.5 billion to shielding…