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Ref. : EIC 230/6/19
21 September 2026
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 815/2026
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of provisional safeguard measures on certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 286/2026 of 27 March 2026, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2133 on 18 September 2026 to impose provisional safeguard measures on certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202602133.
2.The provisional safeguard duty applies to imports of certain grain-oriented flat-rolled products of silicon-electrical steel, currently falling under CN codes 7225 11 00 and 7226 11 00, as well as steel laminations and cores, whether or not stacked or wound, currently falling under CN code 8504 90 13, whether or not incorporated in transformers, currently falling under CN codes 8504 21 00, 8504 22 10, 8504 22 90, 8504 23 00, 8504 31 21, 8504 31 29, 8504 31 80, 8504 32 00, 8504 33 00 and 8504 34 00. For details on the tariff quota volumes, country allocations and the applicable out-of-quota duty rates, please refer to the Annexes of the Implementing Regulation. The Implementing Regulation will enter into force on 25 September 2026.
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact ZHENG Jingmin, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 86 20 3881 9797. The Division is responsible for, among others, guiding and coordinating enterprises in Guangdong Province in responding to anti-dumping investigations against products from the province.
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5350.
Yours faithfully,
(Galen KOT)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU comprises 27 member countries, namely, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
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