European wire rod producers are to call on the European Union to review its import safeguard quota for non-alloy and alloy wire rod products, they said this week.
"Since the imposition of safeguard measures by the European Commission (EC), non-integrated wire rod processors have seen certain quotas vanish at an unprecedented pace," the European Non-Integrated Wire Rod Processors Association (Eunirpa) said on Monday May 6.On February 2, the EC imposed definitive safeguard measures on a list of imported steel products, in the form of tariff rates and quotas that are partly annual and country-specific and partly quarterly and global. Additional EC steel import quotas for 'other countries' became...