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Ref : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
16 September 2010
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 425/2010
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of Provisional Anti-dumping Duty on Imports of Certain Continuous Filament Glass Fibre Products Originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 627/2009 of 17 December 2009, the European Commission has published a regulation to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of certain continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China. The regulation can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:243:0040:0058:EN:PDF.
DETAILS
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Salient points are set out below –
(a) Product | : | Chopped glass fibre strands, of a length of not more than 50 mm; glass fibre rovings, excluding glass fibre rovings which are impregnated and coated and have a loss on ignition of more than 3% (as determined by the ISO Standard 1887); yarns of glass fibre filaments, excluding yarns that are impregnated and coated and have a loss on ignition of more than 3% (as determined by the ISO Standard 1887); and mats made of glass fibre filaments excluding mats of glass wool currently falling within CN codes 7019 11 00, ex 7019 12 00, ex 7019 19 10 and ex 7019 31 00 (TARIC codes 7019 31 00 29, 7019 12 00 21, 7019 12 00 22, 7019 12 00 23, 7019 12 00 24, 7019 12 00 39, 7019 19 10 61, 7019 19 10 62, 7019 19 10 63, 7019 19 10 64, 7019 19 10 65, 7019 19 10 66, 7019 19 10 79 and 7019 31 00 99). |
(b) Rate of Duty | : | 43.6% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for two companies whose individual duty rates are 8.5%). |
(c) Effective Date | : | 17 September 2010 (the duty will apply for 6 months). |
(d) Collection of Duty | : | The release of the product for free circulation in the Union shall be subject to the provision of a security equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty. |
(e) Time Limit for Comments | : | Interested parties may request disclosure of the essential facts and considerations on the basis of which the regulation was adopted, make their views known in writing and apply to be heard by the Commission within one month from 17 September 2010. |
ENQUIRIES
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For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Alex LI)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Note :
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