The Commission opened an investigation into the extension of safeguard measures for steel imports on Friday 26 February. These provisions had been put in place provisionally in July 2018 to counteract the negative effects of the additional tariffs imposed by the United States on European steel in March 2018.
The EU had already applied equivalent customs duties on American steel in June 2018. In order to avoid a sudden influx of steel from other third countries, it had at the same time put...