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Fintaric refresh: steel safeguard quotas, melt-and-pour proof due
Fintaric 1.10. update: provisional GOES safeguard with quotas from 25.9., melt-and-pour proof (Y376-Y387/C131-C139), new PVC, acid and bead codes, distance-sales fee from 1.11.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 1 October 2026
Customs brokers and importers using Fintaric must apply updated tariff-code data from 1 October 2026.Tulli Tulli's change bulletin lists new TARIC subdivisions, expiring codes, footnote measures and text changes that declarants need on the declaration from the stated validity dates.
From 25 September 2026, grain-oriented electrical steel gets a provisional safeguard regime under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2133Europa: specific tariff quotas open for GOES and steel laminations and cores under CN codes 7225 11 00, 7226 11 00 and 8504 90 13 for 155 calendar days
Europa, administered first-come first-served
Europa, with a provisional safeguard duty equal to the difference between the Annex I price threshold and the net free-at-Union-frontier price where the latter is lower
Europa. For laminations and cores incorporated in transformers the duty is a flat 1,140 euro per tonne of core weight, declared with unit TNEO, and no quota applies.
Europa Anti-dumping duties under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/58 are not levied while the higher safeguard duty applies.
Europa New TARIC codes split GOES by core loss (at most 0.7 W/kg versus over 0.7 up to 0.9 W/kg)
Tulli and add steel-lamination codes 8504 90 13 10 and 8504 90 13 90.
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From 1 October 2026, importers of steel under Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 must prove the country of melt and pour at import under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1963Europa: present a Mill Test Certificate stating the melt-and-pour country and heat number, or complementary or standalone evidence such as invoices, delivery notes, quality certificates, supplier declarations, cost and production documents, exporting-country customs documents or commercial correspondence.
Europa The country is declared with TARIC document codes Y376 to Y387
Tulli and the evidence with codes C131 to C139; failure to declare with verifiable evidence leads to rejection of the import
Tulli.
The same bulletin adds new codes effective 23 September 2026 for acetylsalicylic acid (2918 22 00 20)Tulli and suspension- or mass-polymerised PVC (3904 10 00 21 and 3904 10 00 81, excluding emulsion-polymerised E-PVC)
Tulli, effective 1 October 2026 for solid glass microspheres of at most 2 mm diameter (7002 10 00 20)
Tulli, and a long set effective 1 January 2027 for PET flakes, copolymers, wind-turbine nacelle assemblies, motor parts, permanent magnets and lithium-ion cells and packs
Tulli. It retires code 7225 11 00 11 on 24 September 2026
Tulli and a further set, including 0201 30 00 90, PET codes, motor, magnet and battery codes, on 31 December 2026
Tulli. Registration footnotes warn that retroactive anti-dumping duties may be collected on registered imports under Regulations 2026/2049 (from 16 September 2026)
Tulli, 2026/2118 (from 26 September 2026)
Tulli and 2026/2162 (from 1 October 2026)
Tulli. From 1 November 2026 customs collect a fixed per-consignment handling fee for distance-sales goods released for free circulation.
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Legal basis: Commission Implementing Regulations (EU) 2026/2133 of 18 September 2026 (provisional GOES safeguard), (EU) 2026/1963 of 28 August 2026 (melt-and-pour evidence), Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 on steel overcapacity; Tulli Fintaric change bulletin of 1 October 2026.
Apply the Fintaric codes valid on the declaration date (GOES split by core loss, new PVC/acid/bead codes), claim the GOES quota first-come first-served, and attach melt-and-pour proof (Y376-Y387/C131-C139) to steel imports from 1 October 2026.
Sources
- Fintaricin muutoksia 1.10.2026
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/2133 of 18 September 2026 imposing a provisional safeguard measure with regard to imports of certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/1963 of 28 August 2026 on determining the type of evidence to be provided by importers to prove the country of ‘melt and pour’