Commercial Information Circular
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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
24 May 2022
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 418/2022
European Union (EU)* : Amendments to Implementing Regulations imposing definitive anti-dumping duties and definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 365/2021 of 27 May 2021, the European Commission published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/806 on 24 May 2022 to extend the imposition of definitive anti-dumping duties and definitive countervailing duties on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fibre fabrics originating in, inter alia, the Mainland of China to the same imports brought to an artificial island, a fixed or floating installation or any other structure in the continental shelf of a Member State or the exclusive economic zone declared by a Member State pursuant to UNCLOS. The Implementing Regulation is available at:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022R0806&from=EN.
2.Salient points of the Regulation are set out below -
| (a) Product | : | 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), which are re-exported within the meaning of Union Customs Code to or received on an artificial island, a fixed or floating installation or any other structure in the continental shelf of a Member State or the exclusive economic zone declared by a Member State pursuant to UNCLOS |
| Imposition of definitive anti-dumping duties | ||
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 69.0% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price or, where applicable, free-at the continental shelf or exclusive economic zone frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 34.0% to 37.6%) |
| Imposition of definitive countervailing duties | ||
| (c) Rate of duty | : | 30.7% of the net, free-at-Union-frontier price or, where applicable, free-at the continental shelf or exclusive economic zone frontier price, before duty (except for a number of companies with individual duty rates from 17.0% to 24.8%) |
| (d) Effective date | : | 25 May 2022 |
3.For traders involved in the exports of the subject product from the Guangdong Province, please contact GONG Zhihong, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, at 86 20 3881 6201. 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 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Tracy MAK)
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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| Note 2 | "Regulatory Alert - EU" of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council provides up-to-date information on the latest developments in EU trade policy and trade regulations. It is available at: https://research.hktdc.com/en/regulatory-alerts/eu. |