Notice

Taxation notice 2020/37: countervailing duty on continuous filament glass fibre products originating in Egypt

Updated 12 March 2024

This notice is published under regulation 96A(1) of the .

Transition of EU trade remedies measure

This notice gives effect to the EU trade remedies measure specified in Notice of Determination 2020/37: Countervailing duty on continuous filament glass fibre products originating in Egypt.

Duty amount and additional TAP codes

The additional amount of import duty (鈥榯he countervailing duty鈥�) applicable to the net, free-at-the-frontier price, before other amounts of import duty, of goods subject to duty (described below) originating in Egypt is specified in Table 1.

Table 1: Duty amount and additional TAP codes

Overseas exporter Duty amount Additional TAP code
Jushi Egypt for Fiberglass Industry S.A.E. 13.1% C540
All other overseas exporters (residual rate) 13.1% C999

Goods subject to duty

The duty specified in Table 1 applies to goods described, or imported under a commodity code specified, below.

Goods description

  • chopped glass fibre strands, of a length of not more than 50mm
  • 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

Commodity codes

  • 70 19 11 00 00
  • 70 19 12 00 22
  • 70 19 12 00 25
  • 70 19 12 00 26
  • 70 19 12 00 39
  • 70 19 14 00
  • 70 19 15 00

Imposition date

This notice takes effect, and the duty applies, on replacement of EU trade duty.

Expiry date

The duty applies until either a. 26 June 2025; or b. the date the Secretary of State specifies in a notice published under regulation 101C(2)(a) of the Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

Note: Regulation 97C of the Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 provides that a duty that would otherwise expire during a transition review continues to apply until the review concludes.

Duty subject to transition review

The duty applied by this notice is subject to a transition review under regulation 97(2)(b) Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

Information on investigations and reviews may be found on the .

The Rt Hon Liz Truss MP

Secretary of State for International Trade