On July 18, 2018, the European Commission issued a notice saying that the surge in imports of steel products had caused substantial damage to the EU industry, so it decided to impose a 25% temporary safeguards tax on additional imported steel products. The present invention relates to the EU CN (Common Nomenclature) codes 72081000, 72091500, 72091610, 72102000, 72107080, 72091899, 72085120, 72191100, 72193100, 72143000, 72142000, 72221111, 7221010, 72131000, 72163110, 73011000, 73063041, 73061110, 73041100, 73045112, 73051100, Steel products under 73061110 and 7271010. The products involved in China are within the scope of taxation, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region are not subject to taxation. The above temporary safeguard measures are valid for 200 days.

On March 26, 2018, the European Commission issued an announcement to initiate investigations into the initiation of safeguard measures for imported steel products.