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Global steel and automotive trade protectionism

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Global steel and automotive industries are facing increased pressure from trade protectionism and competition, particularly from China. In Peru, manufacturers have reported significant market disruptions due to delays in antidumping investigations, noting that a recent 18-month investigation into Chinese hot-rolled steel tubes coincided with a 94.7% increase in imports and a 16.5% drop in domestic prices. In Europe, the situation has escalated into organized industrial action. Steel producers, processors, Under the name ‘European Convoy for Industrial Competitiveness’, representatives from the steel, metals distribution, processing, and distributors manufacturing sectors held a protest demonstration in Brussels, organized Brussels on September 7. Organized by EUROMETAL, to demand stronger protections against foreign competition. Protesters used the protest featured a convoy of 15 trucks and ten symbolic industrial coffins placed near the European Commission to represent the loss of jobs and production capacity caused by capacity, jobs, and technical expertise due to deindustrialization. Industry representatives leaders warn of a widening competitiveness gap and ‘downstream carbon leakage’. They argue that current European Union protections are insufficient because they primarily cover while raw steel. They claim steel imports are subject to carbon costs and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a loophole allows Asian markets, specifically China, to flood Europe with finished steel-based steel-intensive products—such as car parts and parts, machine components—that do not face the same energy components, springs, furniture, and emission costs as domestic manufacturers. Consequently, industry leaders are calling for household appliances—to enter the expansion of tariffs, quotas, market from Asian countries without equivalent obligations. Protesters are demanding that trade protection tools, including tariffs and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) quotas, be expanded to include a wider range of processed cover these downstream goods. goods to protect European manufacturing investment and strategic industrial independence.

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