EU CIR 2026/2107: definitive countervailing duty on continuous filament glass fibre products from Egypt maintained after expiry review

Mechanism

Regulation (EU) 2026/2107 concludes an expiry review of the EU countervailing measure on continuous filament glass fibre products from Egypt and imposes a definitive countervailing duty under Regulation (EU) 2016/1037. The Commission identified continued countervailable benefits: preferential financing, capital investment support, VAT and import-duty exemptions and rebates, and provision of land for less than adequate remuneration. Per Agence Europe, the Commission found that Jushi Egypt (a subsidiary of China Jushi) was still benefiting from preferential financing granted by Chinese State-owned banks, and rejected Egypt's argument that Chinese financial contributions should not be attributed to Egypt.

Not confirmed from the primary text: the per-exporter duty rate(s), the review's duration extension and the exact entry-into-force clause could not be read this tick (EUR-Lex was unreachable from the filing host; secondary sources do not state rates). The effective date of 2026-09-24 assumes the standard day-after-OJ-publication clause (OJ publication 2026-09-23) and should be corrected on amendment if Article 2 says otherwise. No magnitude: block is filed because no figure was verified.

Downstream implications

• Register-state note: the original Egypt CVD measure is not tracked as its own action here; this is the first

Egypt glass-fibre entry.

• Sits alongside the EU's China glass-fibre trade-defence stack (see

2025-03-18-eu-glass-fibre-yarns-china-antidumping-definitive); Jushi's Egyptian plant is the same group's route around duties on Chinese-origin product, so both measures bind the same producer network.

• Glass fibre is an input to wind-blade, automotive-composite and construction-reinforcement supply chains.