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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
13 May 2026
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 1025/2025 of 2 December 2025, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1063 on 13 May 2026 to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of PET spunbond originating in Chinese Mainland. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202601063.
2.Salient points of the Regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | Certain non-woven needle-punched sheets of polyester filaments, whether or not reinforced by glass fibres, weighing more than 70g/m2, of a thickness exceeding 0.5 mm but not exceeding 1.8 mm, impregnated with one or more binders, containing less than 30% of glass fibres by weight, not coated or covered, currently classified under CN codes ex 5603 13 90, 5603 14 20 and ex 5603 14 80 (TARIC codes 5603 13 90 70 and 5603 14 80 70) |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 50% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 45.6% to 49.4%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 14 May 2026 |
| (d) Collection of duty | : | The release for free circulation in the EU of the product shall be subject to the provision of a security deposit equivalent to the amount of the provisional duty. |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact ZHENG Jingmin, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 86 20 3881 9797. The Division is responsible for, among others, guiding and coordinating enterprises in Guangdong Province in responding to anti-dumping investigations against products from the province.
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5350.
Yours faithfully,
(Galen KOT)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
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