EU imposes duties on dumped glass fibre yarns from China

The imposition of measures follows an investigation, which found that imports of glass fibre yarns from China were being dumped on the EU market and causing injury to EU industry.  

The anti-dumping duties range from 26.3% to 56.1% and will help re-establish fair competitive conditions on the EU market between glass fibre yarns imported from China and those produced domestically. 

Glass fibre yarns – lightweight reinforcement materials used in the automotive, electrical & electronic, construction, energy (blades for wind towers), and aerospace sectors – are important in EU clean tech supply chains and therefore to the EU’s green transition.  

Today’s anti-dumping measures complement a number of others shielding the EU’s glass fibre sector from a plethora of unfair trading practices fuelled by significant Chinese overcapacity in the sector. Past Commission investigations found strong evidence of WTO-incompatible Chinese subsidies offered to exporting producers both in China and abroad, via the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as efforts to circumvent EU measures through the setting up of production in third countries outside China.  

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