According to a statement published in the country’s Official Gazette, Turkey has extended provisional revised import duty rates on some steel products, mainly flat steel products, from July 15 until September 30, 2020. The EU and FTA countries remain exempt from the trade restriction.
As of April 18, Turkey increased import duty rates by five percentage points on some steel products with a few exceptions and adjusted the duty rates for end-user industries in order to help protect domestic steel production and employment until July 15, 2020, as previously reported by SteelOrbis. The given duties were applied for the products coming from third countries only.
The revised duties are valid until September 30 are presented in the tables below.
|
HS codes |
Product |
Former duty rate (%) |
New duty rate (%) |
|
7207 |
Billet |
12 |
17 |
|
7208 |
Hot rolled flat products |
13 |
18 |
|
7208 |
Mainly hot rolled coils |
9 |
14 |
|
7209 |
Mainly cold rolled coils |
10 |
15 |
|
7210 |
Coated flat products |
15 |
20 |
|
7211 |
Uncoated flat products (<600 mm) |
10 |
15 |
|
7211 |
Uncoated flat products (>600 mm) |
15 |
20 |
|
7212 |
Coated flat products (<600 mm) |
15 |
20 |
|
7216 |
Non-alloyed sections |
17 |
22 |
|
7219-7220 |
Stainless cold rolled coil |
12 |
17 |
|
7224 |
Alloy billet & bloom |
14 |
19 |
|
7225 |
Alloy hot rolled coil |
6 |
11 |
|
7228 |
Alloy bar and sections |
7 10 9 |
12 15 14 |