Tariff-rate quotas for steel products: peculiarities of the application

Ingrida Beliokienė
Ingrida Beliokienė
Chief Specialist, Tariff Division, Customs Department under the Ministry of Finance, Lithuania, Lithuania
Published 30 Jun 2021
Tariff-rate quotas for steel products: peculiarities of the application
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Editorial word. This month, the European Commission published a regulation that prolonged the application of safeguard measures against imports of certain steel products. Ingrida Beliokienė, the chief specialist of the Tariffs Division of the Customs Department under the Ministry of Finance (Lithuania), kindly agreed to share information about the peculiarities of the use of these measures.

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