South Korea fears EU green plan as China starts carbon trading

Seoul summons steel makers for talks on coping with carbon border tax

AKANE OKUTSU and KIM JAEWON, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO/SEOUL -- South Korea's government hosted emergency talks with the country's steelmakers on Thursday after the European Union put forward wide-ranging plans to decarbonize its economy, in a first sign of how the green policies could rebound on Asian exporters.

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