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Quotas on imports of steel products start from 2 February and will last until the summer of 2021.
The European quotas for Ukrainian steel will last until the summer of 2021 / photo UNIAN
The European Commission has introduced protective measures against imports of steel products in the European Union for the period to 30 June 2021, and in the list there are fourteen kinds of steel products of Ukrainian origin.
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As the press service of the Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine, the quota for import of steel products start from 2 February, and after their exhaustion will apply duty rate of 25%.
The Ministry noted that under the effect of protective measures is subject to 26 categories of products and metallurgical industry, and the products originated from Ukraine subject to tariff rate quotas for 14 commodity groups.
According to the report, the Ministry of economic development has made Ukraine’s exclusion from the scope of protective measures for 12 product categories.
“Within these quotas, Ukraine will supply the products on the terms defined by the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Individual quotas of Ukraine correspond to the historical volumes of supply, while demand growth in EU countries. For two product categories of the goods from Ukraine will be imported in the EU in the framework of global quotas (tubes for pipelines and steel hot-rolled flat-rolled products)”, – stated in the message.
According to the Ministry, now, given the application of security measures the European Union in that form, a significant number of categories of goods not expect a large negative impact on the volume of supply in the EU.
“Thus, the use of provisional measures (July 19, 2018 February 1, 2019) almost did not affect the volumes of supply of Ukrainian products to the EU market. Ukrainian metallurgical products continued to be exported to the EU in traditional retail sales, for some commodities increased supply,” – said in the message.
In addition to the above categories “hot rolled flat products and pipes for gas pipelines”, the quota set for the Ukrainian core sections, cold-rolled flat-rolled thick sheet metal, rods, stainless steel rebar and light sections, wire rod of non-alloy and alloy steel, angles and special profiles, railway materials.
Also, quotas are set for seamless stainless steel tubes, other seamless tubes, unalloyed and other alloyed cold process bars, non-alloy wire.