Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1581 of 29 July 2025 amending and correcting Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 imposing a definitive safeguard measure on imports of certain steel products

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1581
• Articles: 8

Article 1

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 1(5), is replaced by the following:

‘5.   Where the relevant tariff-rate quota under paragraph 2 is exhausted for one specific country, imports from that country for some product categories can be made under the remaining part of the tariff-rate quota for the same product category. This provision shall only apply during the last quarter of each year of application of the definitive tariff-rate quota. For product categories 1A, 2, 3B, 4A, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25B and 26 no further access to the remaining part of the tariff-rate quota will be allowed. For product categories 1B, 3A, 9, 10, 12, 27 and 28 only access to a specific volume within the tariff-rate quota volume initially available in the last quarter, will be allowed. In product category 4B no exporting country shall be allowed to use, on its own, more than 30 % of the residual tariff-rate quota volume initially available in the last quarter of each year of application of measures.’

;

(2)

Article 1(7), is replaced by the following:

‘7.   A maximum import volume for categories 1A and 2 is 13 %; for category 16 is 15 %; for categories 6, 7 and 13 is 20 %; for categories 4A, 5 and 14 is 25 %; for categories 3B, 20, 21, 25B and 26 is 30 % per country of the available free-of-duty quota at the beginning of the quarter established in Annex IV.1 to this Regulation shall be applicable to countries importing through the residual quota. Furthermore, a maximum import volume for category 17 is 40 % per country of the available free-of-duty quota on 1 August 2025 importing through the residual quota. The maximum import volume applies to countries not having a country-specific quota and is applicable in all quarters.’

;

(3)

paragraph 8 is added to Article 1:

‘8.   For the period between 1.8.2025 and 30.9.2025, the remaining volume of the quota available on 1 August 2025 in Category 17 will be allocated to the respective quotas on the basis of the pro-rata figures in the Annex VI to this Regulation.’

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Article 2

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 is corrected as follows:

(1)

footnote 1 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8601

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8602

From 1.7 to 30.6: For Egypt: 09.8450, for Vietnam: 09.8451, for Japan: 09.8452, for Taiwan: 09.8453, for Australia: 09.8454, for Switzerland: 09.8455, for United States: 09.8456, for Libya: 09.8457, for Canada: 09.8458 and for Algeria: 09.8459’;

(2)

footnote 2 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8661

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8662’;

(3)

footnote 6 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8609

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8610

From 1.7 to 30.6: For Türkiye: 09.8430, for Vietnam: 09.8431, for Taiwan: 09.8432 and for Tunisia: 09.8422’;

(4)

footnote 7 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8611

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8612

From 1.4 to 30.6: For China*: 09.8581, for Korea, Republic of*: 09.8582, for India*: 09.8583 and for United Kingdom*: 09.8584 *In case of exhaustion of their specific quotas in accordance with Article 1.5’;

(5)

footnote 9 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8615

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8616

From 1.7 to 30.6: for India: 09.8423, for Türkiye: 09.8424 and for Japan: 09.8419’;

(6)

footnote 10 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8617

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8618

From 1.7 to 30.6: for India: 09.8425, for Indonesia: 09.8426, for Korea, Republic of: 09.8427 and for Türkiye: 09.8418’;

(7)

footnote 15 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8627

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8628

From 1.7 to 30.6: for Algeria: 09.8428, for Egypt: 09.8429 and for China: 09.8417’;

(8)

footnote 16 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8629

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8630

From 1.7 to 30.6: for China: 09.8436, for Taiwan: 09.8437 and for United States: 09.8415’;

(9)

footnote 18 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8633

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8634

From 1.7 to 30.6: For Malaysia: 09.8460, for Algeria: 09.8461, for Egypt: 09.8462, for Bosnia and Herzegovina: 09.8463, for Korea, Republic of: 09.8464, for Japan: 09.8466, for Indonesia: 09.8465, for Serbia: 09.8467 and for Vietnam: 09.8468’;

(10)

footnote 19 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8635

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8636

From 1.7 to 30.6: for China: 09.8448, for Switzerland: 09.8469 and for United Arab Emirates: 09.8409’;

(11)

footnote 23 in Annex IV.1 is replaced by the following:

‘From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8643

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8644

From 1.7 to 30.6: for China: 09.8442, for Serbia: 09.8443 and for Bosnia and Herzegovina: 09.8449’;

(12)

Table IV.1 with the title ‘Volumes of tariff–rate quotas’ concerning product category 17 in Annex IV of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 is replaced by the table in Annex I to this Implementing Regulation;

(13)

Table IV.2 with the title ‘Volumes of global and residual tariff–rate quotas per trimester’ concerning product category 17 of Annex IV of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 is replaced by the table in Annex II to this Implementing Regulation;

(14)

Table IV.3 with the title ‘Maximum volume of residual quota accessible in last quarters to countries with a country specific quota’ concerning product category 17 of Annex IV of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159 is replaced by the table in Annex III to this Implementing Regulation.

Article 3

The text set out in the Annex IV to this Regulation is added as Annex VI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/159.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . This Regulation shall apply from 1 August 2025.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX I

ANNEX I

Product Number

Product category

CN Codes

Allocation by country (Where Applicable)

Year 8

Additional duty rate

Order numbers

From 1.8.2025 to 30.9.2025

From 1.10.2025 to 31.12.2025

From 1.1.2026 to 31.3.2026

From 1.4.2026 to 30.6.2026

Volume of tariff quota (net tonnes)

17

Angles, Shapes and Sections of Iron or Non Alloy Steel

7216 31 10 , 7216 31 90 , 7216 32 11 , 7216 32 19 , 7216 32 91 , 7216 32 99 , 7216 33 10 , 7216 33 90

Ukraine

31 662,59

31 662,59

30 974,27

31 318,43

25 %

09.8891

United Kingdom

volumes to be calculated as defined in Article 1(8)

27 506,58

26 908,61

27 207,60

25  %

09.8897

Türkiye

volumes to be calculated as defined in Article 1(8)

22 892,27

22 394,61

22 643,44

25  %

09.8892

Korea, Republic of

volumes to be calculated as defined in Article 1(8)

5 335,16

5 219,18

5 277,17

25  %

09.8893

Other countries

volumes to be calculated as defined in Article 1(8)

12 555,44

12 282,49

12 418,96

25  %

( 1 )

United Kingdom (to Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom

14 254,99

14 254,99

13 945,10

14 100,05

25  %

09.8499

( 1 )   From 1.7 to 31.3: 09.8635

From 1.4 to 30.6: 09.8636

From 1.7 to 30.6: for China: 09.8448, for Switzerland: 09.8469 and for United Arab Emirates: 09.8409.

ANNEX II

ANNEX II

Product Number

Allocation by country (Where Applicable)

Year 8

From 1.8.2025 to 30.9.2025

From 1.10.2025 to 31.12.2025

From 1.1.2026 to 31.3.2026

From 1.4.2026 to 30.6.2026

Volume of tariff quota (net tonnes)

17

Other countries

volumes to be calculated as defined in Article 1(8)

12 555,44

12 282,49

12 418,96

ANNEX III

ANNEX III

Product category

New allocated quota in tonnes

From 1.4.2026 to 30.6.2026

17

No access to the residual quota in Q4

ANNEX IV

ANNEX IV

‘ANNEX VI

Country

From 1.8.2025 to 30.9.2025

Pro-rata allocation of the remaining duty-free volumes available under the globalised quota on 1.8.2025

United Kingdom

40,28  %

Türkiye

33,52  %

Korea, Republic of

7,81  %

Other countries

18,39  %

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