Local View: Carbon fee could help protect the Iron Range From the column: "With a carbon price and border tax adjustment, U.S. steelmakers would be able to continue their drive to decarbonize steel while staying profitable." Written By: Eric Enberg | × Kap/Cagle Cartoons How do you make China’s President Xi Jinping really mad? Talk about putting a carbon border adjustment on the carbon content of Chinese goods, like the European Union is now about to enact. In other words, Europeans have a rapidly rising price on carbon, and the Europeans want to charge their going price on carbon on imports at the border so that their industries are not harmed by cheaper Chinese imports that don’t face the same carbon pricing back home.