Notice

Trade Remedies Notice 2023/10: safeguard measure: tariff-rate quota on steel goods

Updated 30 September 2024

This notice was originally published on 30 June 2023. It was superseded by trade remedies notice 2024/06 on 30 June 2024.

This public notice is published by the Secretary of State under paragraph 21(7)(a) of Schedule 5 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 and makes provision giving effect to the recommendation of the Trade Remedies Authority made in accordance with regulation 37(1) of The Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports Causing Serious Injury to UK Producers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (“the Regulations”) and entitled TQ0030: tariff rate quota review – review of developing country exceptions.

Goods description

The tariff rate quota set out in this notice applies to the following steel products (“steel goods”):

Goods category Goods category name ‘UK Global Tariff’ commodity code
A [1] Non-alloy and other alloy hot-rolled sheet and strip 72081000, 72082500, 72082600, 72082700, 72083600, 72083700, 72083800, 72083900, 72084000, 72085210, 72085299, 72085310, 72085390, 72085400, 72111300, 72111400, 72111900, 72126000, 72251910, 72253010, 72253030, 72253090, 72254015, 72254090, 72261910, 72269120, 72269191, 72269199
B [2] Non-alloy and other alloy cold-rolled sheet 72091500, 72091690, 72091790, 72091891, 72092500, 72092690, 72092790, 72092890, 72099020, 72099080, 72112320, 72112330, 72112380, 72112900, 72119020, 72119080, 72255020, 72255080, 72262000, 72269200
C [4] Metallic coated sheet 72102000, 72104100, 72104900, 72106100, 7210690020, 7210690080, 72109080, 72122000, 72123000, 72125020, 72125030, 72125040, 72125061, 72125069, 72125090, 72259100, 72259200, 72259900, 72269910, 72269930, 72269970
D [5] Organic coated sheet 72107080, 72124080
E [13] Rebar 72142000, 72149910
F [19] Railway material 73021022, 73021028, 73021050
G [20] Gas pipe 73063041, 73063049, 73063072, 73063077
H [21] Hollow section 73066110, 73066192, 73066199
I [25A] Large welded tube (1) 73051100, 73051200
J [25B] Large welded tube (2) 73051900, 73052000, 73053100, 73053900, 73059000
K [26] Other welded tube 73061100, 73061900, 73062100, 73062900, 73063012, 73063018, 73063080, 73064020, 73064080, 73065021, 73065029, 73065080, 73066910, 73066990, 73069000

The number in square brackets indicates the corresponding category of steel products in Taxation Notice 2020/06: Safeguard measures on certain steel products – application of tariff rate quotas, which had effect from 11 pm on 31 December 2020 to 30 June 2022.

Summary of the TRQ review

In accordance with regulation 35B of the Regulations, the Trade Remedies Authority have conducted a TRQ review of the UK’s Steel Safeguard trade remedy measure, as there is information to show that there has been a change in circumstance since the application of the TRQ. The change in circumstance under review are changes in patterns of trade, which mean that; imports from a developing country member of the WTO which have been excluded from the application of the TRQ can no longer be excluded under regulation 43 of the Regulations (developing country exception); imports from a developing country member of the WTO which have not been excluded from the application of the TRQ should be excluded under regulation 43 of the Regulations.

Under Regulation 44 of the Regulations the TRA have also considered the exceptions afforded by the application of a safeguard measure to certain countries which have an exception stated in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the UK. This has allowed the TRA to remove imports, when calculating import totals, from relevant countries with applicable FTAs from the scope of any safeguard measures.

The period of investigation (POI) for the review to assess the change in circumstances was 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. The representative period for assessing traditional trade flows was the calendar years 2017 to 2019.

The TRA’s recommendation

In accordance with regulation 37(1) of the Regulations, and as a result of the determinations made pursuant to regulation 35(B) of the Regulations, the TRA made the following recommendation to the Secretary of State of Business and Trade.

The TRA recommended that the developing countries whose status as either subject to or excepted from the safeguard measure, and resulting TRQ allocations, should be varied. The resulting TRQ allocations for each steel category are shown below in the ‘Year 6 Quota Allocation’ section. The allocations below supersede the year 6 allocations in Trade remedies notice 2022/01 and Trade remedies notice 2022/02.

The TRA have made this recommendation as a result of the change of circumstances and their consideration of the facts which are set out in their final recommendation and further evidenced in the public file for case TQ0030.

Secretary of State’s decision on the TRQ review

This public notice gives effect to the Secretary of State’s decision to accept the TRA’s recommendation on the TRQ review of the UK’s Steel Safeguard trade remedy measure. The Secretary of State accepted the recommendation while having regard to the public interest. This notice is made under section 13(4) of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018.

The varied measure shall take effect the day after the date of publication of this public notice made under section 13 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018, which gives effect to this recommendation and to the TRQ periods set out below.

Duty amount

The additional amount of duty (“safeguard duty”) applicable to steel goods imported outside of the quota is 25% ad valorem.

The safeguard duty is applicable to the net free-at-the-frontier price of the good (before any other amount of import duty).

The application of the steel safeguard measure remains suspended from 1 July 2022 until 30 June 2024 with respect to goods originating in Ukraine, as originally implemented by taxation notice 2022/01.

Duration

The updated tariff-rate quota applies from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.

Quota amount and allocation

Right to access quota

The right to access the quota is granted by His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to importers in the United Kingdom on a first-come, first-served basis.

Importers are asked to cite the relevant order number set out in the Annex when applying to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to access a particular quota.

Limited access to unused quota in next quarter of same year

The drawings on each quarterly quota shall be stopped on the twentieth working day of the month following the end of the quarterly period. Any unused quota allocated for steel goods originating in a country or territory remains available in the next quarter for steels goods originating in that country or territory. Any unused balance may cumulate within the same year but any quota remaining at the end of each year is not available in the next year.

Open access to unused quota in quarter 4 of each year

Importers of steel goods originating in a country or territory with an exhausted quota allocation for the year may, only in quarter 4 of that year, apply for the right to use any remaining quota allocated for steel goods originating in all other countries or territories.

Year 6 quota allocation

The tariff rate quota applies from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, in tonnes (t), allocated quarterly:

  • quarter 1: 1 July 2023 to 30 September 2023
  • quarter 2: 1 October 2023 to 31 December 2023
  • quarter 3: 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024
  • quarter 4: 1 April 2024 to 30 June 2024
Goods category Origin country or territory Year 6 quarter 1 Year 6 quarter 2 Year 6 quarter 3 Year 6 quarter 4
A [1] EU 181,526 181,526 179,553 179,553
  Türkiye 23,834 23,834 23,575 23,575
  Taiwan 13,269 13,269 13,125 13,125
  Residual 22,837 22,837 22,589 22,589
  Total 241,467 241,467 238,842 238,842
B [2] EU 78,489 78,489 77,636 77,636
  India 9,652 9,652 9,547 9,547
  Korea, South 11,546 11,546 11,421 11,421
  Residual 24,492 24,492 24,226 24,226
  Total 124,179 124,179 122,829 122,829
C [4] EU 313,539 313,539 310,131 310,131
  Taiwan 32,416 32,416 32,063 32,063
  India 23,941 23,941 23,681 23,681
  Türkiye 23,873 23,873 23,614 23,614
  Residual 82,792 82,792 81,892 81,892
  Total 476,561 476,561 471,381 471,381
D [5] EU 35,482 35,482 35,096 35,096
  Korea, South 14,419 14,419 14,262 14,262
  Residual 2,155 2,155 2,132 2,132
  Total 52,056 52,056 51,490 51,490
E [13] EU 72,081 72,081 71,298 71,298
  Türkiye 34,148 34,148 33,777 33,777
  Residual 23,250 23,250 22,997 22,997
  Total 129,480 129,480 128,073 128,073
F [19] EU 4,640 4,640 4,590 4,590
  Residual 137 137 135 135
  Total 4,777 4,777 4,725 4,725
G [20] EU 6,847 6,847 6,773 6,773
  India 3,520 3,520 3,482 3,482
  UAE 2,334 2,334 2,308 2,308
  Türkiye 15,213 15,213 15,048 15,048
  Residual 715 715 708 708
  Total 28,630 28,630 28,318 28,318
H [21] EU 10,962 10,962 10,842 10,842
  Türkiye 36,113 36,113 35,721 35,721
  Residual 3,332 3,332 3,296 3,296
  Total 50,407 50,407 49,859 49,859
I [25A] EU 6,126 6,126 6,059 6,059
  Korea, South 1,224 1,224 1,210 1,210
  Japan 8,006 8,006 7,918 7,918
  Residual 2,159 2,159 2,136 2,136
  Total 17,514 17,514 17,324 17,324
J [25B] EU 15,756 15,756 15,585 15,585
  Japan 1,984 1,984 1,963 1,963
  Korea, South 4,529 4,529 4,479 4,479
  Residual 4,777 4,777 4,725 4,725
  Total 27,046 27,046 26,752 26,752
K [26] EU 22,073 22,073 21,833 21,833
  Türkiye 10,775 10,775 10,658 10,658
  PRC 5,668 5,668 5,607 5,607
  UAE 14,833 14,833 14,672 14,672
  Residual 9,787 9,787 9,680 9,680
  Total 63,136 63,136 62,450 62,450

Goods excluded

Exclusion for steel goods originating in signatory countries or territories

All steel goods originating in a signatory country or territory specified below are excluded from both:

  • the quota amount allocated for all other countries or territories

  • the application of the safeguard duty

Signatory countries or territories

  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bahamas
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Guyana
  • Jamaica
  • Kenya
  • St Kitts and Nevis
  • St Lucia
  • St Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Suriname
  • Trinidad and Tobago

Limited exclusion for steel goods originating in developing countries or territories

Except for steel goods in a goods category originating in a developing country or territory annotated with that goods category, any steel goods originating in a developing country or territory specified below are excluded from both:

  • the quota amount allocated for all other countries or territories

  • the application of the safeguard duty

Key

The * denotes a quota amount for the goods category is allocated for the country or territory.

The ^ denotes the quota amount for the goods category allocated to all other countries or territories is available for the country or territory.

Developing countries or territories

  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Brazil (Categories: 2^, 25b^)
  • Brunei
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cape Verde
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China (Categories: 25A^, 26*)
  • Colombia
  • Congo
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Cuba
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt (Category: 13^)
  • El Salvador
  • Eswatini
  • Fiji
  • Gabon
  • The Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • India (Categories: 1^, 2,4, 5^, 13^, 20*, 26^)
  • Indonesia
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Macao
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia (Category: 13^)
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • North Macedonia
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Qatar
  • Rwanda
  • St Kitts and Nevis
  • St Lucia
  • St Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Samoa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Solomon Islands
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Suriname
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia (Category: 2^)
  • Türkiye (Categories: 1, 4, 13, 20, 21, 25B^, 26)
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates (Categories: 20, 21^ and 26)
  • Uruguay
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam (Categories: 4^, 5^)
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Annex 1: Order numbers for importers to access the tariff-rate quota on steel goods

Goods category Origin country or territory Order number
A [1] European Union 058001
A [1] Türkiye 058967
A [1] Taiwan 058085
A [1] All others 058002
B [2] European Union 058003
B [2] South Korea 058802
B [2] India 058801
B [2] All others 058005
C [4] European Union 058006
C [4] Taiwan 058088
C [4] India 058106
C [4] Türkiye 058107
C [4] All others 058007
D [5] European Union 058010
D [5] South Korea 058827
D [5] All others 058011
E [13] European Union 058018
E [13] Türkiye 058866
E [13] All others 058020
F [19] European Union 058030
F [19] All others 058031
G [20] Türkiye 058911
G [20] European Union 058032
G [20] India 058912
G [20] United Arab Emirates 058090
G [20] All others 058033
H [21] Türkiye 058916
H [21] European Union 058034
H [21] All others 058035
I [25A] Japan 058108
I [25A] European Union 058091
I [25A] South Korea 058095
I [25A] All others 058036
J [25B] European Union 058037
J [25B] South Korea 058974
J [25B] Japan 058109
J [25B] All others 058038
K [26] European Union 058039
K [26] United Arab Emirates 058948
K [26] Türkiye 058947
K [26] China 058949
K [26] All others 058041