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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13

3 August 2021

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 559/2021

European Union (EU)* : Impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on certain continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 300/2017 of 26 April 2017, the European Commission published a notice 2021/C 311/05 on 3 August 2021 concerning the impending expiry of the anti-dumping measures on imports of certain 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/PDF/?uri=OJ:JOC_2021_311_R_0005&from=EN.

2.The product concerned is 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 within CN codes 7019 11 00, ex 7019 12 00 (TARIC codes 7019 12 00 21, 7019 12 00 22, 7019 12 00 23, 7019 12 00 25, 7019 12 00 39) and 7019 31 00. Unless a review is initiated in accordance with the procedure set out in the notice, the anti-dumping measures will expire at midnight of 26 April 2022.

3.Definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China has been imposed since 16 March 2011. The current rate of anti-dumping duty is 19.9% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 0% to 19.9%).

4.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.