G/SG/N/10/EU/1/Suppl.9  
G/SG/N/11/EU/1/Suppl.6  
 
30 October 2020  
(20-7678) Page: 1/4 
Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 12  OF THE  
AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS  
NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 9, FOOTNOTE 2  
OF THE AGREEMENT ON SAFEGUARDS  
EUROPEAN UNION 
Certain Steel Products  
Supplement  
The following notification, dated  30 October 2020 , is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of the European Union .*
 
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Pursuant to Article 12 of the WTO Agreement on Safeguards (Safeguards Agreement), the European 
Union notifies that it published a Notice as follows:  
1. Specify t he date when the Notice was published  
The European Commission ( 'the Commission ') published a Notice on 30 October 2020.  
A copy of the Notice, which includes inter alia the scope and applicable rules of procedure, is 
attached. The Notice has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union1. 
2. Specify the product subject of the Notice  
The product subject to the Notice is certain steel products (the 'product concerned '). The product 
concerned, together with the CN codes within which it is currently  classified, are listed in the Annex 
to this notification. Those CN codes are given for information purposes only.  
3. Provide the reasons for the publication of the Notice  
The Notice concerns a proposal to adapt the TRQs under the safeguard measures on certain steel 
products to the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU customs territory as of 
1 January  2021.  
The scope of this TRQ adaptation consists in recalculating the volume of the TRQs in accordance 
with the volume of imports into the Union in the absence of the UK in the reference period 
(2015 -2017) for the remainder of the period.  
 
* A copy of the Official Journal has been submitted electronically. To consult this document, please 
contact Ms Richards ( anne.richards@wto.org ) or Ms Naville ( delphine.naville@wto.org ) of the Rules Division.  
1 OJ C 366, 30.10.2020, p.36  G/SG/N/10/EU/1/Suppl.9 • G/SG/N/11/EU/1/Suppl.6  
 
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  Methodology  
The Commission 's adaptation proposal recalculates the TRQ volumes by: i) Establishing import 
volumes of countries subject to measures in EU27 during the period 2015 -2017; ii) adding to this 
amount the level of UK trade flows into EU27 in the period 2015 -2017; and iii) adding to the resulting 
amount, per product category, a 5% (to reflect the top -up of February 2019) and the liberalisation 
increases (two in creases of 3% in July 2019 and 2020 respectively).  
Impact of the adaptation  
As a result of this adaptation, TRQs overall volumes per product category will change, as well as the 
allocation of countries between the country -specific and residual sections of each TRQ, although 
these latter changes affect only a minority of TRQs. Most notably, the United Kingdom would receive 
a country -specific TRQ in those categories whose share was at least 5% in the period 2015 -2017.  
4. Invitation to WTO Members to hold consult ations  
Members having a substantial interest on the proceeding that wish to consult with the 
European  Union may make a request through the EU Mission in Geneva, expressing their preferred 
date and time to hold consultations. These consultations shall be he ld 
between  3-13 November  2020 (via Cisco Webex or Skype Meetings ). 
5. Provide a point of contact for the proceeding and identify the preferred means for 
corresponding  
Commission address for correspondence:  
European Commission  
Directorate -General for Trade  
Directorate G, Unit G5  
Office: CHAR 03/66  
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel  
BELGIQUE/BELGIË  
E-mail address: TRADE -SAFE009 -REVIEW@ec.europa.eu ; enrique.arrieta@ec.europa.eu  
6. Provide the deadlines and procedures for importers, exporters and other interested 
parties to present evidence and their views, including (i) deadlines and procedures for 
Member s and exporters to identify themselves as interested parties, if so required, to 
participate in the proceeding, and (ii) the date of an intended public hearing as 
provided for in Article 3.1  
The Commission invites interested parties to comment exclusively on the proposed new TRQs 
resulting from the adaptation. The scope of the comments shall be limited to the Methodology applied 
in order to adapt the TRQs and the list of developing countries subject to the current measures.  
Any submission, and supporting ev idence, must reach the Commission within 5 working days  of 
the date of publication of this Notice in the Official Journal of the European Union . 
As a rule, interested parties may only submit information within the timeframes specified in this 
Notice. Any e xtension to the time limits provided for in this Notice can only be requested in 
exceptional circumstances and will only be granted if duly justified. Duly justified exceptional 
extensions to the deadline to make submission will normally be limited to 2 additional days . 
Interested parties should send all written submissions and requests to the Commission 
by TRON.tdi  (https://tron.trade.ec.europa.eu/tron/TDI ). 
Interested parties may request an interven tion of the Hearing Officer. In principle, these 
interventions shall be limited to the issues that may arise during the current proceeding.  G/SG/N/10/EU/1/Suppl.9 • G/SG/N/11/EU/1/Suppl.6  
 
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  A request for an intervention of the Hearing Officer should be made in writing and should specify the 
reasons for th e request. The Hearing Officer will examine the reasons for requests, having due regard 
to the interests of good administration and the timely completion of the investigation.  
For further information and contact details interested parties may consult the H earing Officer's web 
pages on DG Trade's website:  
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/trade -policy -and-you/contacts/hearing -officer / 
Any submission of views and information after the above deadlines may be disregarded.   G/SG/N/10/EU/1/Suppl.9 • G/SG/N/11/EU/1/Suppl.6  
 
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  ANNEX  
LIST OF PRODUCT CATEGORIES SUBJECT TO DEFINITIVE SAFEGUARD MEASURES  
Product Number  Product category  
1 Non Alloy and Other Alloy Hot Rolled Sheets and Strips  
2 Non Alloy and Other Alloy Cold Rolled Sheets  
3.A Electrical Sheets (other than GOES)  3.B 
4.A Metallic Coated Sheets  4.B 
5 Organic Coated Sheets  
6 Tin Mill products  
7 Non Alloy and Other Alloy Quarto Plates  
8 Stainless Hot Rolled Sheets and Strips  
9 Stainless Cold Rolled Sheets and Strips  
10 Stainless Hot Rolled Quarto Plates  
12 Non Alloy and Other Alloy Merchant Bars and Light Sections  
13 Rebars  
14 Stainless Bars and Light Sections  
15 Stainless Wire Rod  
16 Non Alloy and Other Alloy Wire Rod  
17 Angles, Shapes and Sections of Iron or Non Alloy Steel  
18 Sheet Piling  
19 Railway Material  
20 Gas pipes  
21 Hollow sections  
22 Seamless Stainless Tubes and Pipes  
24 Other Seamless Tubes  
25A Large welded tubes  25B 
26 Other Welded Pipes  
27 Non-alloy and other alloy cold finished bars  
28 Non Alloy Wire  
 
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