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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
9 July 2024
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 594/2022 of 19 July 2022, the European Commission published notice C/2024/4357 on 9 July 2024 concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China. The notice is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:C_202404357.
2.The product concerned is fabrics of woven and/or stitched continuous filament glass fibre rovings and/or yarns with or without other elements, excluding products which are impregnated or pre-impregnated (pre-preg), and excluding open mesh fabrics with cells with a size of more than 1.8 mm in both length and width and weighing more than 35 g/m2, originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China, currently falling under CN codes ex 7019 61 00, ex 7019 62 00, ex 7019 63 00, ex 7019 64 00, ex 7019 65 00, ex 7019 66 00, ex 7019 69 10, ex 7019 69 90 and ex 7019 90 00 (TARIC codes 7019 61 00 81, 7019 61 00 83, 7019 61 00 84, 7019 62 00 81, 7019 62 00 83, 7019 62 00 84, 7019 63 00 81, 7019 63 00 83, 7019 63 00 84, 7019 64 00 81, 7019 64 00 83, 7019 64 00 84, 7019 65 00 81, 7019 65 00 83, 7019 65 00 84, 7019 66 00 81, 7019 66 00 83, 7019 66 00 84, 7019 69 10 81, 7019 69 10 83, 7019 69 10 84, 7019 69 90 81, 7019 69 90 83, 7019 69 90 84, 7019 90 00 81, 7019 90 00 83 and 7019 90 00 84). Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping measures will expire at midnight of 7 April 2025.
3.Definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of the product originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China have been imposed since 7 April 2020. The current rate of anti-dumping duty is 69.0% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rate from 34.0% to 37.6%).
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Ms Tracy MAK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
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