The CBAM exposes six Spanish cement companies: Brussels taxes imported clinker and the industry warns

The six independent plants account for 15% of the national quota, 406.8 million in turnover and 420 direct jobs. ASEINCE estimates that they will make a loss in 2030 and that the segment will disappear in 2033 if Brussels does not correct the distribution of free rights.

Six Spanish cement companies are facing the CBAM without kilns, without free duties and with an extra cost of up to 40 million per plant. These are independent mills: they import the clinker, pulverize it here and, since 2026, they pay customs for the carbon that others emitted when manufacturing it. The mechanism – the CBAM, the carbon border adjustment that the EU charges on imports of steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity for the CO₂ emitted when producing them – was born to protect European industry from competition with third countries.

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