石油设备网讯 据油价网12月13日消息称，欧盟周二达成了一项临时协议，将对钢铁、水泥、铝、化肥和电力等污染性非欧盟产品的进口征收碳税，这是首个考虑碳排放强度的贸易法规。
欧洲议会和欧盟成员国经过一年多的谈判达成的临时协议旨在保护欧盟行业，这些行业减少来自非欧盟国家制造或衍生的竞争产品的排放，这些国家的气候目标和立法不那么雄心勃勃。
欧洲议会在周二的一份声明中表示，新规则完全符合世界贸易组织的规则。
这项立法在成为欧盟法律之前，还有待欧洲议会和欧洲理事会正式批准和通过。该立法包括所谓的欧盟碳边界调整机制，旨在应对气候变化和防止碳泄漏。
碳税将覆盖钢铁、水泥、铝、化肥和电力，并扩展到氢气、一定条件下的间接排放、某些前体，以及一些下游产品，如螺丝、螺栓和类似的钢铁制品。
虽然欧盟表示，这项法律将激励非欧盟国家提高他们的气候目标，但包括美国和亚洲新兴经济体在内的欧盟主要贸易伙伴担心，新规定将使贸易进一步复杂化，并提高美国和其他制造商的出口成本。
曹海斌 摘译自 油价网
原文如下：
EU Reaches Deal On Carbon Tax For imports
The European Union reached on Tuesday a provisional agreement to impose a carbon tax on the imports of polluting non-EU products such as iron and steel, cement, aluminum, fertilizers, and electricity, in a first trade regulation accounting for carbon emission intensity.
The provisional deal, which the European Parliament and the EU member states reached after more than a year of negotiations, is aimed at protecting EU industries that reduce emissions from competing products manufactured or derived from non-EU countries with less ambitious climate goals and legislation.
The new rules are in full compliance with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European Parliament said in a statement on Tuesday.
The legislation, which has yet to be formally approved and adopted by the European Parliament and European Council before becoming EU law, consists of a so-called EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism designed to combat climate change and prevent carbon leakage.
The carbon tax will cover iron and steel, cement, aluminum, fertilizers, and electricity, and extended to hydrogen, indirect emissions under certain conditions, certain precursors, as well as some downstream products such as screws and bolts and similar articles of iron or steel.
While the EU says that the law will incentivize non-EU countries to increase their climate ambition, the EU’s key trading partners, including the United States and emerging economies in Asia, have expressed concern that the new rules would further complicate trade and raise export costs for U.S. and other manufacturers.
