EC amends safeguard measures on HDG for automotive sector

January 17, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

The European Commission (EC) has backtracked on an end-use monitoring procedure which was applied as part of its safeguard measures on imports of hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG) destined for the automotive industry, it said on Wednesday January 15.

The HDG safeguard was among a raft of such measures that concerned 26 steel product categories, with any imports that exceeded a specific quota becoming subject to duty at 25%.
In the definitive measures for metallic-coated sheets (product category 4), the EC split the product category into two sub-categories, 4A and 4B, with the automotive sector mainly consuming material from the latter group.

In a review of the safeguard measures implemented on October 1 last year, the EC decided to adjust the quotas for category 4 to restrict the use of category 4B to imports where it could...

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