India should seek deferment on imposition of carbon tax by the European Union on engineering sector's MSMEs by three years as domestic manufacturers may not have the financial resources to counter the duty, according to a parliamentary panel's report. The department related parliamentary standing committee on commerce's report — Comprehensive Strategy to Map Major Products and Countries to Maximize Exports …
India plans to challenge certain provisions of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism as the government is concerned about its impact on steel exports from India, steel secretary Nagendra Nath Sinha said. With the rapid growth of steel imports from Japan, Korea, China and Russia, will the government look at restoring import duty on steel products to levels that …
Starting this October, the European Union proposes to introduce a framework for levying a carbon tax on imports of products that rely on non-green or sub-optimally sustainable processes and where carbon emissions are deemed to have not been adequately priced. This Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism will begin with an import monitoring mechanism and culminate in the levy of duties as …
The government is considering revising its industrial electrification strategy to prioritize adopting cleaner energy sources, such as green hydrogen and battery storage, over fossil fuels amid the need to meet net-zero targets and the potential imposition of taxes on products based on their carbon emissions by developed nations. The move comes as the steel and aluminium sectors, which predominantly use …
The story so far: The 27-member European Union has been ramping up its climate action efforts with the European Parliament, the bloc’s legislative body, adopting a rapid pace in climate negotiations. Along with this phasing out of free carbon allowances, the EU will phase in another ambitious and first-of-its-kind policy— the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, aimed at levelling the playing …