584 - Merchant Bar from Taiwan

The goods the subject of the application (the goods) are:

Steel bars and sections in the following shapes and sizes, whether or not containing alloys:

•  “Flat bars” (Rectangular sections) that have a thickness of 4.75 millimetres (mm) or greater and have a width greater than 17 mm and less than 165 mm;

•  “Channels” (U sections and C sections) that have a web thickness greater than 3 mm and are of a height greater than 70 mm and less than or equal to 130 mm; and

•  “Equal angles” and “unequal angles” (L sections), that have a thickness greater than 2.5 mm with a combined leg length greater than 40 mm and less than or equal to 200 mm.

“Flat bars” include "modified rectangles", of which two opposite sides are convex or concave arcs, the other two sides being straight, of equal length and parallel.  “Channels” include both parallel and tapered flanges.  Steel sections in the dimensions described above, that have minimal processing, such as cutting, drilling or coating (other than coating or plating with zinc or a zinc alloy) do not exclude the goods from the subject of this application.

Goods excluded from this application are:

•  goods that are formed by welding or are cold-formed or slit from flat-rolled products ;

•  goods that are galvanised;

•  goods that are of stainless steel; and

•  goods that are in coiled form.

Goods that meet the above description are commonly, but not exclusively, referred to as “merchant bar”.

Further information on the goods can be found in ADN 2021/073 below.