EU rebar quotas remain open except for Türkiye

Türkiye is the only rebar supplier into the EU to oversubscribe its Q3 Category 13 country-specific quota as of Friday under the bloc’s new steel import regime, which entered into force on 1 July, Kallanish notes.

Turkish origin rebar volumes awaiting allocation reached 106,664t against a quota of 59,919t, exceeding the available volume by 46,745t, or 78%.

All other country-specific quotas remain open, with 53-100% of their allocations still available.

Egypt has utilised 31% of its 36,092t quota, leaving 24,779t (69%) available. Algeria has recorded the second-highest utilisation rate after Türkiye, with 7,461t awaiting allocation against a quota of 15,940t, leaving 8,480t (53%) still available.

Ukraine has utilised 16% of its 16,928t allocation, leaving 14,195t (84%) available, while China has used just 81t of its 5,054t quota, with 98% remaining. Moldova has its entire 9,930t allocation available.

The residual “Other countries” quota remains largely untouched, with only 272t awaiting allocation, leaving 15,559t (98%) still available.

Notably, the 39,701t of the additional pool for free-trade-agreement (FTA) partners holding country-specific quotas (FTA Quota-CSQ), remains fully available. It is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and provides further tariff-free access for eligible suppliers from Egypt, Türkiye and Ukraine.

The FTA quota for other countries remains entirely unused at 9,575t.

Q3 EU TRQ rebar (category 13) allocation (tonnes)

Source: EU Taric, as of 10 July. Complied by Kallanish