The year 8 steel safeguards, which run 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, have changed. Full details of the changes which come into force on 1 July 2025 can be found in the Public Notice 2025/12.
A brief summary of the changes:
- All Year 8 quotas have been increased by 0.1%.
- No rollover of unused quota between quota periods.
- In Q4, countries with their own quotas can no longer use the residual quota if they have fully used their own quota.
- The following quotas have been removed from Year 8:
- EU Category 2
- India Category 2
- South Korea Category 2
- Residual (other) Category 2
- Turkey Category 4
- UAE Category 20
- The following changes have been made to the residual (all other countries) quotas:
- Category 4 – Limit for any country of a maximum of 15% of the residual quota volume; quota order numbers for major export countries added:
- 058410 Vietnam
- 058411 South Korea
- 058412 Japan
- 058413 USA
- 058414 Singapore
- 058415 Canada
- Category 7 – Limit for any country of a maximum of 20% of the residual quota volume; quota order numbers for major export countries added:
- 058700 South Korea
- 058701 Japan
- 058702 USA
- 058703 Canada
- 058704 Taiwan
- 058705 Switzerland
- Category 13 – Limit for any country of a maximum of 20% of the residual quota volume; quota order numbers for major export countries added:
- 058130 Algeria
- 058131 Egypt
- 058132 USA
- 058133 New Zealand
- 058134 Norway
- 058135 Japan
- Category 4 – Limit for any country of a maximum of 15% of the residual quota volume; quota order numbers for major export countries added:
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Türkiye has been added to the list of exempted countries.
- The following exempted countries are NOT exempt from these safeguard quotas:
- China – Categories 6, 25A (residual), 25B (residual), 26
- Egypt – Category 13 (residual) – no change
- India – Categories 1A (residual), 1B (residual), 4, 20, 26
- Türkiye – Categories 1A, 1B (residual), 12B, 13, 16 (residual), 17 (residual), 20, 21, 26
- UAE – Categories 21 (residual), 26
- Vietnam – Categories 1A (residual), 1B (residual), 4
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