Commercial Information Circular

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Ref. : EIC 230/6/19

20 May 2019

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 387/2019

European Union (EU)* : Initiation of review of safeguard measures on imports of certain steel products

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 104/2019 of 4 February 2019, the European Commission has published a notice initiating a review of the safeguard measures applicable to imports of certain steel products. The notice is available at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52019XC0517(05)&from=EN.

2.Interested parties are invited to make their views known, submit information and provide supporting evidence within 15 days from 17 May 2019. If necessary, a reasoned request for an intervention of the Hearing Officer, who reports directly to the Commissioner for Trade of the EU, may be made in writing. The review will be concluded before 30 September 2019 whenever possible.

3.Please refer to the notices for further deadlines and details. For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.

Yours faithfully,

(Manus LUI)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU member countries are 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, Sweden and the United Kingdom.