02 JUNE 2025AlCircle.com
Here’s the trick! Study reveals how aluminium scrap, with a Billion-Euro backdoor, is potent to loosen EU’s Carbon Border for importers
Edited by : Pratyusha Chatterjee
6 min read
When the European Union unveiled its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the ambition was clear: to build a fortress against carbon leakage, shield domestic industries from unfair competition, and incentivise global decarbonisation. It was heralded as the world’s most sophisticated climate tariff, with a complex, bold, and precise outline.
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But as the legislation transitions from theory to implementation, a critical vulnerability has emerged. And it’s not in exotic energy systems or abstract accounting tricks. It’s in something far more mundane, yet deceptively potent — aluminium scrap.
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