CBAM News: Latest Regulatory Updates
Coverage of EU Commission guidance, ETS price movements, and compliance alerts for importers and exporters.
EPICO and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung say CBAM protects carbon pricing but cannot mobilize investment. Their September 2026…
EUROFER warns EU steel carbon costs will rise from €3.4bn in 2026 to €8.2bn by 2031 under the ETS revision, the same sch…
EmiCert announced on September 23, 2026 that ESYD has accredited it as the world's first CBAM verifier. The Commission's…
Metinvest warns Ukraine may flip to importing Turkish and South Korean steel, shelves a EUR 200 million Poland plan, and…
Submissions to Australia's 2026-27 Safeguard Mechanism review closed September 18, 2026. BlueScope and CMI back an Austr…
MEPs deleted the CBAM safety valve on September 15, 2026 and swapped exemptions for revenue support. The Council kept th…
The European Parliament adopted its CBAM scope-expansion mandate 464-50 on September 15, 2026, backing downstream produc…
Parliament's CBAM mandate adopted on September 15, 2026 has no Ukraine carve-out. GMK Center models a complete halt to U…
SI 2026/995, made September 8, 2026, fixes how UK CBAM emissions are calculated and verified from January 1, 2027. Defau…
Parliament debates the CBAM downstream mandate on September 14, 2026. The vote sets the product-list pole for trilogues:…
Importing 10,000 tonnes of Ukrainian cement triggers about €663,000 in CBAM costs on default values versus €195,000 on a…
Korea held its 13th joint CBAM briefing on September 2, 2026, promoting 15 support measures: a help desk, free software,…
Spain's Club de Exportadores called on September 2, 2026 for the ETS-CBAM binomial to be put on standby and fertilizers…
CBAM verifier registration opened September 1, 2026. The two-stage Registry procedure runs via EU Access and O3CI; full…
Sefcovic's September 1 answer to Parliament rules out an SME exemption from the EU Steel Regulation's 50% tariff; the 50…
GMK Center data shows Ukrainian long-product exports fell 41.7% in H1 2026 under CBAM, with tighter EU quotas applying f…
CBAM September 2026 calendar: verifier registration opens, Parliament votes on downstream scope, the DS639 panel returns…
Turkey's ETS implementing regulation took effect on August 27, 2026, but under the EU's draft Article 9 rules Turkish ex…
From 2026 an accredited verifier attests where your supplier's plant stands and how it produces. See what those two fiel…
A KCCI and KICOX survey of 300 Korean exporters finds 99.3% face customer demands for emissions data and two-thirds mana…
Peter Liese confirms end-2026 ETS review positions and a January 2027 trilogue start for COM(2026) 616, the proposal tha…
About 500 signatories and 40+ steel associations demand CBAM extension to CN chapters 73-95; a protest convoy is schedul…
BRICS ministers condemned CBAM as punitive and protectionist in New Delhi on August 18, 2026. One day later, India ran a…
Ireland's IFA demanded suspension of CBAM on nitrogen fertiliser on August 18, 2026, arguing farmers cannot pass the cos…
Stainless Espresso tallies 430+ pages of new CBAM guidance on a 3,000+ page rulebook. The steel guide's own example: 100…
Four rival drafts for Ukraine's national ETS are before the Rada, EcoPolitic reports. The design chosen will shape Ukrai…
EUAs held €81-84 through mid-August 2026, tracking the Q3 CBAM certificate price about €6-8 above Q2's €75.28 on our est…
The European Commission published ten CBAM guidance documents on August 14, 2026: four general guides and six sector gui…
A report via Carbon Pulse puts Korean steel's CBAM exposure near USD 4 billion, with POSCO's estimated cost rising from…
GMK Center, citing Reuters, reported on August 14, 2026 that EU quota cuts and CBAM are squeezing Ukrainian steel as ind…
DG TAXUD posted the corrected CBAM default values Excel on August 10, 2026. A steelnews.biz analysis finds all 46 genuin…
US envoy Andrew Puzder called CBAM a tariff by a different name on August 12, 2026. Brussels rejected the claim, calling…
Salzgitter's CEO credited CBAM for price support and lower imports in H1 2026, while Thyssenkrupp's raised guidance name…
Australia's 2026-27 Safeguard Mechanism review opened on August 7, 2026 and weighs a staged border carbon adjustment, wi…
The CBAM certificate consultation closed on August 6, 2026 with 93 submissions after a final-day surge. Adoption of the…
MITI put Malaysia's 2026 CBAM compliance bill for steel at MYR 970.7 million, about USD 237 million, the first official…
65 submissions on the draft CBAM certificate sale and repurchase rules, filed ahead of the August 6, 2026 deadline, ask…
Simon Watts says any New Zealand CBAM would be built with Australia, likely later in 2027, as Canberra's safeguard revie…
EUA auctions cleared in a €79-86 band from late July to August 5, 2026, well above the €75.28 Q2 CBAM certificate price.…
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1740 corrects the CBAM default values in Annexes I and IV retroactively from January 1…
From September 1, 2026, prospective CBAM verifiers must register in the CBAM Registry to apply with their national compe…
UNESID warns that declaring large-diameter welded pipes as steel structures adds about €300/t of CBAM liability, against…
ArcelorMittal and Holcim both credit CBAM for European pricing power in Q2 2026 results, while Egyptian HRC import offer…
A senior Indian commerce official says the India-EU FTA has a dedicated CBAM annexure: EU flexibility flows to India, ve…
The Energy Community's second quarterly CBAM report finds EU-Western Balkans power trade fell 15% in Q2 2026, with physi…
Pascal Lamy called for a Ukraine CBAM exemption tied to decarbonisation milestones in a Contexte interview on July 22, 2…
The EU blocked Russia's first WTO panel request in DS639 on July 24, 2026. Establishment is now quasi-automatic at the n…
EU member states will vote in September 2026 on which foreign carbon prices count against CBAM bills, Carbon Pulse repor…
Steel, aluminium and fertilizer groups set out rival CBAM demands before the September plenary: wider scope, a pause for…
India released draft CCTS steel targets for consultation, expects carbon trading by October 2026, and raised CBAM recogn…
The EU ETS revision COM(2026) 616, tabled July 17, 2026, would return 15% free allocation to CBAM sectors in 2028 and de…
DG TAXUD ran a 'Become a CBAM verifier' webinar on July 16, 2026 after launching a dedicated verification page. First ac…
SI 2026/809, made July 13, 2026, fixes how the UK CBAM rate is calculated and how carbon price relief works. The January…
UK Trade and Business Commission urges reciprocal UK-EU CBAM exemptions during ETS linking, warning of up to £800m in EU…
Russia requested a WTO panel in DS639 against EU CBAM on July 10, 2026, the first panel-stage case over a border carbon…
Public feedback on the EU Commission's draft CBAM certificate sale and repurchase rules ahead of the August 6, 2026 dead…
ENVI adopted its CBAM review position on July 6, 2026 by 56 votes to 11: downstream expansion to 400+ CN codes, tougher…
The Q2 2026 CBAM certificate price is €75.28/tCO₂e, published by the European Commission on July 6, 2026. It sits €0.08…
The Q1 2026 CBAM certificate price is €75.36/tCO₂e — the first official quarterly average published by the European Comm…