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Steel from nine trade partners faces 50% duty after quota exhaustion

EU bilateral safeguards apply from 6 August 2026. The applicable treatment depends on product category, non-preferential origin and available tariff quota.

By Taxxa AI OyPublished 7 August 2026

Tax Legal & Corporate

Steel imports originating in Albania, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia and Türkiye are subject to a 50% ad valorem out-of-quota duty under EU bilateral safeguard measures effective from 6 August 2026.VID The measure covers the product categories in Annex I to the EU Steel Regulation. The duty applies once the relevant tariff quota has been exhausted.VID

Tariff quotas are allocated by country and product category.VID That allocation may be a country-specific quota or a quota accessed in competition with other countries.VID Importers therefore need to identify both the category of steel being declared and the quota available for its origin. A free-trade agreement with one of the named countries does not remove this bilateral safeguard.

The measure sits within the framework established by the Steel Regulation, which entered into force on 25 June 2026VID and opened tariff quotas totalling 18,345,922 tonnes across 26 product categoriesVID. The subsequent allocation regulation distributes those quotas.VID The August measure applies bilateral safeguards to the nine named trade partners within that framework.VID

Origin is determined under the Union's non-preferential origin rules.VID There is also a specific rule for EU-origin products processed in a third country without acquiring a new originVID: when brought back into the Union, those products receive the treatment that this safeguard assigns to products originating in that third countryVID. That specific treatment concerns products brought back after processing without acquiring a new origin.

Latvia's State Revenue Service directs traders to its Integrated Tariff Management System, ITVS, for current duties and quota information.VID The relevant sections are the measures applying to a commodity code and the tariff-quota subsections. Checking the commodity code, origin and quota position is the practical starting point for assessing the safeguard on a shipment.

The legal basis is Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1930, Articles 1–3VID, read with Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1457VID.

Check the steel product category, origin and available tariff quota before assessing the safeguard duty.

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