Anti-dumping on glass fibre from China

EuCIA (European Composites Industry Association) was recently informed that both India and Turkey have imposed anti-dumping measures on glass fibre from China. In India the provisional measures are reaching levels of an astonishing 40.86%, while in Turkey they were set at 38% which represents additional costs to the already 7% existing import duty. Following this unprecedented situation, the ongoing investigation of the European Commission on glass fibre products from China is still going on. As the voice of the European composites industry, EuCIA is strongly opposing any type of protectionist measures and these views have been expressed several times to the European officials. Last Febuary EuCIA and EuPC (European Plastics Converters) had met representatives of the European Commission in charge of the matter, but no decision was taken by the European officials on this case.