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Ref. : EIC 230/2/3/2/13
14 July 2023
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 482/2023
European Union (EU)* : Result of expiry review of the anti-dumping measure on certain continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 331/2022 of 21 April 2022, the European Commission published an Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1452 on 14 July 2023 to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain continuous filament glass fibre products originating in the Mainland of China following the expiry review. The Implementing Regulation is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32023R1452.
2.Salient points of the regulation are set out below -
| (a) 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 7019 12 00 22, 7019 12 00 25, 7019 12 00 26, 7019 12 00 39), 7019 14 00 and 7019 15 00 and originating in the Mainland of China |
| (b) Rate of duty | : | 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 15.9%) |
| (c) Effective date | : | 15 July 2023 |
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 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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