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EUROFORGE has the following disinterested international purposes in order to contribute to the well-being and economic development of the European forging industry: a) Development of knowledge concerning the technical, commercial and legal environment of the forging industry. b) Increase the awareness of forging and thereby to enhance the acceptability and desirability of components so produced. c) Encourage the continuation and development of the sound scientific and technological basis of the European forging industry. d) Represent the European forging industry to the EU authorities and equivalent bodies in other regions of the world. Encourage European uniformity and co-operation especially in the area of standardisation The geographic scope of the EUROFORGE activities shall include all countries based on the European continent. EUROFORGE covers the following fields of forging industry: hot, warm and cold forging, open die forging, ring rolling.

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Response to Extension of the scope of the carbon border adjustment mechanism to downstream products and anti-circumvention measures

3 Jul 2025

In the initial political process of deciding on the CBAM regulations and on the scope of the goods concerned, it was decided to include CN codes 7326 (Articles of iron or steel) and 7616 (Articles of aluminium) as some of the few downstream goods (following the steel and aluminium raw material value chain) in the CBAM scope. As we learned, by Q4 2025, the Commission will conduct a comprehensive review of CBAM, accompanied by an anti-circumvention strategy and by a first legislative proposal. In this context we are proposing to enlarge the CBAM scope by additional forged goods (out of CN-code groups 8455, 8483, 8487 and 8708) as they are bearing similar characteristics as the goods already included in terms of steel content and trade intensity. The current regulation allows to bypass the CBAM regime by declaring forged goods differently or by processing the goods one-step further along the value chain and importing them as forged parts, which are not protected by CBAM. Not taking the additional forged goods into account would bear a high risk of the loss of the volumes currently exported outside the EU and a significant increase in the volumes imported into the EU with simultaneous displacement of the existing production in the EU. We ask the European Commission to support this extension of the CBAM scope in the context of their assessment during the transition period. We also ask the EU Commission to consider a relief regulation for goods that are affected by future CO2-taxes when exported outside the EU as the cost increase resulting from these taxes mean a considerable competitive disadvantage against international competitors. Detailed justifications for our proposals and the list of CN-codes of forged goods can be found in the attached annex.
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Response to Revision of the Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (EEAG)

8 Dec 2020

The expected decision by the EU to raise the emissions reduction target to 55% for 2030 will result in tightening targets in all policy areas. In particular, it will be necessary to expand renewable energies even faster than previously planned. This will lead to further increasing costs for consumers. It is therefore crucial to protect all electricity-cost intensive companies whose international competitiveness is threatened. The lists of energy-intensive sectors eligible for aid need to be updated and revised so that data from official statistics are not used exclusively to determine trade and energy intensities at the 4-digit NACE level, as these data have significant gaps in important places . EUROSTAT does not provide any foreign trade data for many energy-intensive industries. However, the lack of this data does not mean that companies in these sectors are not in international competition. Scientific studies show for the industries 25.50.2, 25.50.5 and 25.61.21 that they meet the criteria for inclusion in Annex 3 of the guidelines for environmental protection and energy subsidies 2014-2020 on both the trade and energy side. In addition to the goal of net greenhouse gas neutrality, the Green Deal promises to be a growth program for the European economy by 2050, nobody should be left behind. With a view to the aforementioned sectors of drop forging (25.50.2), powder metallurgy (25.50.5) and heat treatment (25.61.21), this goal is also an end in itself for the goal of climate neutrality, because the companies in these industries produce the solutions for the first emission-free Continent of the earth. Without them, no wind turbines will turn and there are no efficient combustion or electric vehicles in Europe. Even an efficient circular economy cannot be achieved without the products of these industries. The revision of the State aid guidelines offers the opportunity to create a reliable legal framework for the energy-intensive industries in Europe for their development and their important contribution to the Green Deal. EUROFORGE is the European association of the forging industry, which stands for some 560 mid-sized companies that employ more than 70,000 people.
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