They were no less than three ministers mobilized Tuesday during a video conference to extol the future carbon tax at the borders.
Barbara Pompili (Ecological Transition), Bruno Le Maire (Economy) and Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) support the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (MACF) that the European Commission is due to present in June, in addition to the work of Parliament European.
The three French ministers have also signed a forum to this effect with their counterparts from seven European countries.
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The MACF, for example, plans to impose on cement or steel imported from third countries the same "carbon price" as that paid today by European cement and steel manufacturers.
The aim is both to protect the latter against less environmentally friendly competition and to avoid “carbon leakage”, that is to say to pollute elsewhere.
The mechanism will have to comply with the rules of the WTO (World Trade Organization), underlined the commissioner
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