Press Release: New EU-Kazakhstan Steel Agreement opens way for increased steel imports from Kazakhstan

On 22 July 2002 the European Commission and the Kazakh government signed a new EU-Kazakhstan agreement. The Agreement increases quantitative limits for the import of certain Kazakh steel products into the EU for the years 2002 to 2004. All the products covered by this agreement are excluded from the scope of the provisional EU safeguards on steel imports approved at the end of March 2002.

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