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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
30 October 2026
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 939/2026
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collecting the provisional duty on imports of PET Spunbond originating in Chinese Mainland
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 435/2026 of 13 May 2026, the European Commission published Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2393 on 30 October 2026 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty and definitively collect the provisional 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_202602393.
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 70 g/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 falling 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 | : | 48.1% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 39.8% to 47.1%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 31 October 2026 |
| (d) Collection of duty | : | The amounts secured by way of the provisional anti-dumping duty under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1063 shall be definitively collected |
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 trade remedy investigations against products from the province.
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Jenny MOK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU comprises 27 member countries, namely, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, 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 and Sweden.
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