Tobacco and Steel: DG Trade and its Transparency Issues – Stainless Espresso
Tobacco and Steel: DG Trade and its Transparency Issues 28 August 2026 – The European Ombudsman is scrutinising DG Trade’s contacts with the tobacco industry. The same Directorate General writes steel tariffs, quotas and Melt and Pour rules. A documented...
Canada Retaliates Against US Section 338 Tariffs – Stainless Espresso
Canada Retaliates Against US Section 338 Tariffs 26 August 2026 – Canada announced yesterday that it intends to respond with countermeasures from 8 September to the US Section 338 tariffs, which have been applied for the first time. More than 870 products are to...
CBAM: A Question for the European Commission – Stainless Espresso
CBAM: A Question for the European Commission 25 August 2026 – On 24 August, the European Commission published its guidance on CBAM verification. Across 141 pages, it explains how to understand just 40 pages of regulation. The bureaucratic madness surrounding the...
€54,000 Entry Fee: PPWR Shuts SMEs Out of the Single Market – Stainless Espresso
€54,000 Entry Fee: PPWR Shuts SMEs Out of the Single Market 24 August 2026 – Eleven BRICS countries are taking a united stand against CBAM, if necessary through the WTO. In purchasing power terms, they are two and a half times the size of the EU. Brussels is...
EU and US: Brussels Discovers Protectionism, When Others Do It – Stainless Espresso
EU and US: Brussels Discovers Protectionism, When Others Do It 18 August 2026 – US Ambassador Andrew Puzder has touched a sensitive nerve in the Financial Times. The EU criticises American tariffs as protectionist, while simultaneously defending CBAM as a...Advertisements
