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Priority transport issues for the European steel industry
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Transport plays a central role for the EU steel industry in its competitiveness within and outside of EU borders as it accounts for up to 15% the steel sector’s total costs. A functional single market, with established principles of free movement of goods and services, is a necessary foundation on which the more than 500 steel processing and production sites in 24 steel-producing member states of the EU rely on in their everyday operations.
Brussels, 14 April 2026 – Europe’s steel industry has welcomed the conclusion; EU negotiations on a new trade measure for steel, calling it an unprecedented response that will protect European steel capacity, safeguard more than 230,000 jobs and stabilise a sector pushed to the brink by record imports and global overcapacity.
Brussels, 3 April 2026 – The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has set out proposals to improve the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), just as the system enters a decisive new phase with the publication of the first carbon certificate prices expected on 7 April 2026.
Brussels, 25 March 2026 - The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has warned that the latest OECD data released in Paris today confirms a deepening global steel crisis and urged the EU to act swiftly to adopt its new steel trade measure.
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