ANSA: Euranimi warns that new EU steel plan will lead to deindustrialisation

‘Brussels must thoroughly review the proposal’
(ANSA) – ROME, 27 OCT – The European Association of Independent Metal Distributors (Euranimi) has sounded the alarm over the European Commission’s new steel plan which, according to the organisation, ‘will bring tens of thousands of manufacturing companies across Europe to their knees’. ‘The measure is excessive,’ reads a statement, ‘with quotas halved, duties doubled and a new CO₂ tax on steel imports’.

For Euranimi, this combination ‘will paralyse tens of thousands of manufacturing companies across Europe’. To prevent Europe from weakening its industrial base and accelerating the deindustrialisation already underway, the association “calls on the European Parliament and the Council to ask the Commission to thoroughly review the proposal and, at the same time, to supplement it with a mirror mechanism for finished products: a 50% tariff quota applied to the steel content of imported finished products containing more than 20% steel, once a reasonable import threshold has been exceeded.

Such a mechanism would ensure that European producers are not penalised simply because they produce within the Union. “Simply protecting steel plants and their 300,000 jobs is a strategic mistake,” says Christophe Lagrange, member of the Euranimi board of directors.

“We need to protect the entire value chain, where ten times as many people work. Protecting European steel production is legitimate, but not at the expense of the processing industry,” adds Rob Greve, member of the executive board.

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Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) 
Translated from Italian
27 October 2025 19:42