This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 31 January 2019.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER

( 1 ) OJ L 83, 27.3.2015, p. 16 .

( 2 ) OJ L 123, 19.5.2015, p. 33 .

( 3 ) Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2018/1013 of 17 July 2018 imposing provisional safeguard measures with regard to imports of certain steel products ( OJ L 181, 18.7.2018, p. 39 ).

( 4 ) Notice of initiation of a safeguard investigation concerning imports of steel products ( OJ C 111, 26.3.2018, p. 29 ).

( 5 ) Notice amending the notice of initiation of a safeguard investigation concerning the imports of steel products ( OJ C 225, 28.6.2018, p. 54 ).

( 6 ) WTO Appellate Body Report, US – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products , WT/DS259/AB/R, para. 319.

( 7 ) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1694/2002 ( OJ L 261, 28.9.2002, p. 1 ).

( 8 ) WTO Panel Report, Dominican Republic — Safeguard Measures on Imports of Polypropylene Bags and Tubular Fabric , WT/DS415/R, WT/DS416/R, WT/DS417/R, WT/DS418/R, paras. 7.177 and 7.236.

( 9 ) Botswana, Cameroon, Fiji, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini.

( 10 ) These were product categories 10, 11, 19, 24 and 27.

( 11 ) Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, India, People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and Turkey.

( 12 ) WTO Appellate Body Report, Argentina – Safeguard Measures on Imports of Footwear , WT/DS121/9, para.131.

( 13 ) WTO Panel Report, US – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Wheat Gluten from the European Communities , WT/DS166/R, para. 8.31.

( 14 ) WTO Panel Report, Ukraine – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Passenger Cars , WT/DS468/R, Panel Report of 26 June 2015, para. 7.146.

( 15 ) WTO Panel Report, US – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products , WT/DS259/R, para. 10.168.

( 16 ) WTO Appellate Body Report, Argentina – Safeguard Measures on Imports of Footwear , WT/DS121/AB/R, adopted 12 January 2000, para. 130.

( 17 ) WTO Panel Report, US – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products , WT/DS259/R, footnote 17, para. 374.

( 18 ) WTO Panel Report, US – Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products , WT/DS259/R, para. 10.168, footnote 16, para. 7.132.

( 19 ) https://www.globaltradealert.org/reports/download/44, p. 11.

( 20 ) COM(2016) 155 final of 16 March 2016.

( 21 ) Source: Global Trade Atlas.

( 22 ) https://www.cbp.gov/trade/quota/bulletins/qb-18-126-absolute-quota-aluminum-products-argentina-brazil-south-korea

( 23 ) US Section 232 measures entered into force on 8 March 2018, and the Commission analysed data up until September 2018.

( 24 ) Company and date(s) of announcement(s), million short tons: Big River, 25.4.2018 and 29.6.2018, 3,2; US Steel, 5.3.2018, 2,8; JSW Steel, 26.3.2018 and 21.6.2018, 2,5; Nucor, 10.1.2018, 2.3.2018, 11.5.2018 and 7.9.2018, 2,25; North Star Bluescope, 13.8.2018, 0,7-1,0; Liberty Steel Group, 26.6.2018, 0,75; Republic Steel Group, 12.3.2018 and 19.7.2018, 0,66; Steel Dynamics, 26.6.2018, 0,4. The total planned capacity expansion announced by this non-exhaustive list of 2018 press reports (mostly company press releases) is 13,5 million short tonnes, equal to around 12 million MT.

( 25 ) Article 7(2c) of Regulation (EU) 2016/1036 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2018/825 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 ( OJ L 143, 7.6.2018, p. 6 ).

( 26 ) WTO Appellate Body Report, US- Line Pipe , WT/DS202, para. 235.

( 27 ) CN codes 7225 19 90, 7226 19 80.

( 28 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code ( OJ L 343, 29.12.2015, p. 558 ).

( 29 ) Botswana, Cameroon, Fiji, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini.

( 30 ) OJ L 84, 20.3.2004, p.13 .

( 31 ) OJ L 300, 31.12.1972, p. 189 .

( 32 ) OJ L 227, 7.9.1996, p. 3 .

( 33 ) OJ L 293, 29.12.1972, p.3 .

( 34 ) Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 18 January 2017, C-365/15, Wortmann v Hauptzollamt Bielefeld , EU:C:2017:19, paragraphs 35 to 39.

( 35 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/670 of 28 April 2016 introducing prior Union surveillance of imports of certain iron and steel products originating in certain third countries ( OJ L 115, 29.4.2016, p. 37 ).

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