The European Union has imposed temporary antidumping duties of up to 25 percent on imports of Chinese-made steel wire rods, but will not put extra tariffs on other Chinese steel products, the EU's Official Journal said, Reuters reported.
Brussels has also imposed antidumping duties of around 4 percent on imports of steel rods -- mainly used in construction -- from Moldova, the journal said on Tuesday.
The tariffs remain for six months. The European Commission, which oversees trade policy for the 27-nation bloc, must then decide whether to impose "definitive duties" for at least five years, which must then be approved by trade ministers.
But the Commission said separately in the journal that it was "terminating the anti-dumping proceeding concerning imports of certain hot-dipped metallic-coated iron or steel flat-rolled products originating in the People's Republic of China".
Steel cold-rolled flat products are used in automobiles, household appliances and other products.