On the occasion of a consultation of the European Commission on the subject, A3M has clearly expressed its support for the establishment of a tool to combat the consequences of global steel overcapacity on the European Union market..

France is rich in diversified steel industry players (products and grades), human skills, an upstream and downstream ecosystem, an energy mix with low CO2 emissions, which form a whole irrigating essential value chains in France and Europe.
Unfortunately, in the space of 10 years, steel production in France has fallen significantly: increased competition (overcapacity, unfair advantages, predatory policies, etc.), pressure on prices and accessible volumes, decline in the European market and necessary restructuring are the main causes.
There is an urgent need to implement new market protection measures : in this sense the proposals of theAlliance of Energy Intensive Industries made on 28/7/2025 by 11 European countries are welcome. The MACF, innovation aid, and decarbonization aid are not enough to contain the consequences of global overcapacity: only a structural trade protection tool will achieve this.
The outlines of such a tool are described in our position available on our site : TRQ, customs duties of 50% above the quota, supplements by anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tools, quarterly quota management, quotas for each country without exception, coverage of all products, limitation of imports differentiated by macro family of products, melted/cast rule, implementation from January 1, 2026.

European steel is at the heart of our industries, at the heart of our territories, and at the heart of tens of thousands of families in France.