Commercial Information Circular
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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
26 February 2021
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 123/2021
European Union (EU)* : Imposition of a definitive countervailing duty on imports of continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 922/2019 of 23 December 2019, the European Commission published an implementing regulation (EU) 2021/328 on 25 February 2021 to impose a definitive countervailing duty on imports of continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China. The notice is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021R0328&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| 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); and mats made of glass fibre filaments excluding mats of glass wool, currently falling under CN codes 7019 11 00, ex 7019 12 00 (TARIC codes 7019120022, 7019120025, 7019120026, 7019120039) and 7019 31 00 |
| Rate of Duty | : | 10.3% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 4.9% to 10.3%) |
| Effective Date | : | 24 February 2021 |
For further details on the imposition of the definitive countervailing duties, please refer to the implementing regulation.
3.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Serena YUEN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU comprises of 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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