Information for ruling 600014944
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Expiry date
- 22 Apr 2029
- Commodity code
- 7224900700 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- A semi-finished round cornered square steel bar with a cross-section throughout its length. Sizes ranging from 95mm square up to 250.7mm square The main molten steel production methods include: Melting raw materials using either an Electric Arc Furnace or Basic Oxygen Furnace Ladle Furnace refining Vacuum Degassing Chemical adjustments in the tundish After this stage, the steel solidifies through two different methods: Continuous casting into oscillating moulds to produce Blooms, which accounts for most of the material used in Lincoln Bottom teeming into Ingots, which is employed for a limited tonnage Once Blooms and Ingots are cast, the solidified steel divides into two types used in our forging process: As-Cast Blooms (not included in this classification) Hot rolled Blooms and Ingots feature “smooth” surfaces, which may be mill-finish, lightly scaled, or shotblasted. Steels with higher hardenability chemistry may be annealed after rolling to lower the risk of cracking during transit. During forging, the steel is heated above 1,175°C, fully converting its crystalline structure to Austenite. This process eliminates previous microstructures like Ferrite, Pearlite, Bainite, and Martensite present in the imported steel. These may reform during cooling but are typically refined compared to the original as-rolled or as-cast structures. For precipitation hardening grades, forging at high temperatures also acts as a solution treatment, dissolving precipitates formed during rolling. The size and distribution of these precipitates are further modified by controlled cooling. Forging alters grain size and distribution throughout the steel. Initially, imported steel has limited useful mechanical properties. The desired properties are established during forging—through solution treatment and precipitation hardening—or via traditional heat treatments post-forging, such as Quenching and Tempering, Normalising, or Isothermal Annealing. Imported bars arrive in a Round Cornered Square cross-section, but none of these shapes remain in the finished product.
- Keywords
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- OF BASE METALS
- OF STEEL
- SEMI-FINISHED
- ALLOYS
- ALLOY STEELS
- BASE METALS AND ALLOYS
- HOT ROLLED
- Justification
- Classification has been determined in accordance with the following: For the purposes of determining the commodity codes within which goods most appropriately fall, reg 3 (1) of The Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 sets out that the rules of interpretation contained in the following have effect – a. Part Two (Goods Classification Table Rules of Interpretation) of the Tariff of the United Kingdom (Reg 3(1)(a)); and b. Notes to a section or chapter of the Goods Classification Table (Reg 3(1)(b)). General interpretative rules (GIRs): GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 7224 - other alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of other alloy steel GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 722490 - other than ingots and other primary forms 8-Digit code 72249007 - Other than elsewhere specified in this subheading Also classified in accordance with: Chapter Note f to Chapter 72 Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSENS) to heading 7224 (11)