Riegel/Brussels, 6 August 2026 – The Gerber Group has submitted a detailed statement in the EU consultation on the draft Delegated Regulation on the sale and repurchase of CBAM certificates and the common central platform. The company’s central message: a typing error is not fraud, legal action is not a correction function, and a single irrevocable request per year is not simplification.
Riegel/Brussels, 2 July 2026 – Gerber Group has submitted clear demands as part of the EU consultation on evidence requirements for the country of melt and pour of steel. Existing commercial documents must be sufficient. Anything else systematically discriminates against small and medium sized enterprises.
Riegel/Brussels, 10 June 2026 – The Gerber Group warns of the consequences of the planned EU implementing act on the deduction of carbon prices paid in third countries under CBAM. What is officially intended to prevent double burdens threatens, in practice, to do exactly the opposite: companies will have to surrender CBAM certificates even where carbon costs have already been incurred in the country of origin – because Brussels ties relief to conditions that many companies simply cannot meet in practice.
Riegel/Brussels, 30 April 2026 – Eighteen weeks after entering into force, the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism CBAM is still not operational. Instead of fixing the obvious flaws, the European Commission is already preparing the next stage of escalation: a 50 percent tariff on 30 steel product categories from 1 July 2026, a cut in tariff-free import quotas of around 47 percent – and, in parallel, the extension of CBAM to downstream products. For Europe’s SMEs, this would amount to a double burden by design.
Riegel/Brussels, 19 March 2026 – Gerber Group, an importer of stainless steel and aluminium based in Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, urgently warns against the planned EU steel tariffs and import quotas currently being negotiated in the trilogue process.
Riegel/Brussles, 11 February 2026 – European competitiveness has reached a critical juncture. What was long considered an abstract risk has become a tangible reality for companies across all Member States – particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This is the warning issued by the Gerber Group.
Riegel/Brussels, 12 January 2026 – Barely two weeks after the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) entered into force, the European Commission is already considering exemptions and relief measures-specifically for the agricultural sector. Under pressure from EU agriculture ministers, Commissioners Hansen, Várhelyi and Maroš Šefčovič have signalled a willingness to suspend CBAM and reduce tariffs for fertilisers, while leaving the steel consuming sector fully exposed to sharply rising costs.
Riegel/Brussels, 9 January 2026 – The Gerber Group has today formally alerted the European Commission to serious errors and inconsistencies in the recently published CBAM default values. The default values were published on 31 December 2025 in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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 proposal presented on 7 October 2025 poses an existential threat to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe.
Riegel/Strasbourg, 29 September 2025 – The competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe is under massive and growing pressure. Insolvencies have been rising for years – and the trend has accelerated dramatically in 2025.
Riegel, 23 September 2025 – The Gerber Group strongly warns against the introduction of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on 1 January 2026. In three official statements to the European Commission, the company criticizes the serious gaps in methodology and the absence of benchmark and default values necessary for the legally secure calculation of CBAM costs. It calls for an immediate suspension, or at least a postponement of the start by 12 to 24 months.
Riegel/Strasbourg, 1 September 2025 – In recent years, the competitiveness of European businesses has declined dramatically – with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) particularly burdened by rising energy costs, high tariffs, and a policy framework that prioritizes regulation over opportunity.
On 2 June, the USTR published the findings of its Section 301 investigations into forced labour. The result: the measures taken by all 59 countries investigated and by the European Union were classified as insufficient. The consequence: additional tariffs of 10 to 12.5% – cumulative on top of existing tariffs.
In the United States, the higher Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminium have been in force for more than a year. The consequences are now being felt on supermarket shelves: companies in the food industry that depend on imported tinplate for the production of cans are being hit hard. Tinplate has not been produced in sufficient quantities in the United States for years – because it is more attractive for domestic steel producers to manufacture products with higher margins.
The bureaucratic monster keeps growing. CBAM has been in force for 20 weeks – still full of errors, still unfinished, still an imposition on every entrepreneur who needs reliable figures. At the same time, the Commission is already actively working on extending CBAM to downstream products. More thousands of pages. More costs. More SMEs left to deal with the fallout.
On 7 May, I was at the German Bundestag because of CBAM and steel tariffs. Not for the first time on this issue – but for the first time with this level of clear reaction.
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