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The duties — currently only in the form of bank guarantees — are already in place and the Commission will ask EU countries to vote on cementing them into place for five years in October. It will then also decide whether these duties apply retroactively from March 7 or from July 5 — the date the duties went into effect — the Commission confirmed to POLITICO. There is even a scenario where the charges are only collected from late October, the Commission said.