The European Union will introduce provisional safeguards on electrical-steel imports beginning September 25.
The measures establish import quotas and minimum prices ranging from approximately €2,800 to €3,500 per metric ton, depending on product and volume.
Unlike earlier protections focused on raw steel, the new system covers electrical steel, laminations and transformer cores across the production chain.
European manufacturers have argued that low-cost imports threaten domestic capacity needed for transformers, power grids, electric vehicles and renewable-energy equipment.
China supplied more than half of the bloc’s electrical-steel imports in 2025, while products from Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States have also faced scrutiny.
The provisional rules are intended to support producers including Thyssenkrupp’s electrical-steel division and Poland’s Stalprodukt while the European Commission continues its investigation.
Any longer-term safeguards would require further Commission action and support from a qualified majority of EU member states.
Source: Reuters
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