Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2107: EU renews 13.1% countervailing duty on Egyptian glass fibre reinforcements for a further five years

Mechanism

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2107 continues, unchanged in rate, the definitive countervailing duty of 13.1% on imports of continuous filament glass fibre products ("GFR" — glass fibre reinforcements and rovings, as distinct from the woven/stitched glass fibre fabrics covered by the separate CIR 2020/776 China/Egypt case) originating in Egypt. The duty was first imposed by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/870 in June 2020; this is the Article 18 (Regulation (EU) 2016/1037) expiry review that confirms continuation for a further five years rather than letting the measure lapse. Egypt's GFR export capacity is concentrated in the China– Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, where Chinese-owned producers manufacture for EU export; the review record was not accessible via this office's tooling (EUR-Lex served an AWS WAF bot challenge on every fetch attempt — see Open questions), so exporter-specific names are not confirmed here and company_refs is left empty rather than guessed.

Severity basis

Countervailing duty rate: 13.1% ad valorem, unchanged from the original 2020 imposition and confirmed continuing for five more years by the 2026 expiry review. Secondary reporting (Glass Fibre Europe) also notes a separate, newer 11% anti-dumping duty added on the same GFR product in April 2026 — a distinct measure under a different legal instrument, not covered by this filing.

Downstream implications

• Extends, rather than escalates, an existing restriction — EU downstream

buyers of Egyptian GFR (wind-turbine blade manufacturers, automotive composites suppliers, construction-reinforcement fabricators) that have already adjusted sourcing since 2020 face no new cost shock, only continuation of the status quo for another five years.

• Structural peer to CIR 2025/501 (glass fibre yarns from China, filed

2025-03-18-eu-glass-fibre-yarns-china-antidumping-definitive) — together these close substitution channels across the main glass-fibre product forms (yarns vs. reinforcements/rovings) that Chinese-owned producers operating from China or Egypt could otherwise use to route around EU trade defence.

• Confirms the EU's trade-defence architecture treats Egypt-based, Chinese-

owned production (TEDA Suez Zone) as within scope for anti-subsidy measures despite the "Egypt origin" label — relevant precedent for other China-linked third-country processing hubs.

Open questions

• Exporter-specific duty rate breakdown (if differentiated by company, as

in the CIR 2025/501 yarns case) is in Article 1 / the annex of CIR 2026/2107; EUR-Lex returned an AWS WAF JS challenge (HTTP 202, x-amzn-waf-action: challenge) on every direct-fetch attempt (WebFetch and curl with a browser user-agent both blocked) — a human browser session would be needed to confirm named exporters (Jushi Egypt and/or Hengshi Egypt are the known Chinese-owned producers in the zone, but their inclusion in this specific GFR case, as opposed to the separate GFY/fabrics cases, is not independently confirmed).

• Whether the newer April 2026 anti-dumping duty (11%, per Glass Fibre

Europe) on the same GFR product is itself IPTM-register-worthy as a separate filing.