ANNEX III

SPECIAL STEELS

Special steels and high carbon steels, as defined in the draft European customs nomenclature  finalized by the Tariff Committee at its meeting in Brussels on 15 July 1950, shall be treated  according to which of the following groups they fall within:

a. Special steels commonly called structural steels, containing less than 0.6% of carbon and  not more than 8% of two or more alloying elements taken together or 5% of a single alloying  element; ( 1 )

( 1 ) Sulphur, phosphorus, silicon and manganese in the amounts normally accepted in ordinary  steels are not counted as alloying elements.
b. High carbon steels, containing between 0.6 and 1.6% of carbon; special steels other than  those defined in ( a ) above, containing less than 40% of two or more alloying elements taken  together or 20% of a single alloying element;1
c. Special steels not covered by ( a ) or ( b ).

Products in groups ( a ) and (b) shall come within the jurisdiction of the Commission, but to  enable study to be made of appropriate arrangements for the application of this Treaty to  them, given the special features of their production and of trade in them, the date for the  abolition of import and export duties or equivalent charges and of all quantitative restrictions  on their movement within the Community shall be deferred until one year after the date of the  establishment of the common market in steel.

As to products in-group ( c ), the Commission shall, upon taking up its duties, enter into a  series of studies to determine appropriate arrangements for the application of the Treaty to  them, taking into account the special features of their production and of trade in them; as and  when the findings are forthcoming, and within three years of the establishment of the  common market at the latest, the arrangements suggested for each of the products in question  shall be submitted by the Commission to the Council, which shall pronounce upon them in  accordance with Article 81. During this period products in group ( c ) shall be subject only to  statistical checks by the Commission.

K. A.
P. v. Z.
J. M.
SCH.
SF.
B.
S.
V. D. B.

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