EU Keeps 7.3% Tile Duty Rate for Renamed Indian Maker Varmora Granito

European Union lists Varmora Granito’s new name in its ceramic tile duty, keeping its 7.3% rate from Oct. 21, 2026.

On 20 October 2026, the European Commission updated its duty on Indian and Turkish ceramic tiles to record Indian maker Varmora Granito’s new name.

The change came in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2319, dated 19 October 2026 and published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 20 October 2026¹. It amends the 2023 regulation that first set the duties on ceramic tiles from India and Türkiye¹.

In short, tiles made by this Indian company still pay the same duty rate when they enter the European Union (EU). Customs now needs to see the new company name, Varmora Granito Limited, with the same company code. Importers who paid too much because of the name change can ask for the extra duty back.

What is changing for Varmora Granito tiles?

Until now, the duty list named the company as Varmora Granito Private Limited¹. The new regulation replaces that name with Varmora Granito Limited in Annex I of the 2023 regulation¹. Annex I is the list of Indian and Turkish companies that the Commission treated as cooperating but did not examine in detail.

The company keeps its customs code. That code is a TARIC additional code, A013, a four-character code an importer enters on the customs declaration to claim a company’s own duty rate¹. TARIC is the Integrated Tariff of the European Union, the EU’s online database of import duties¹.

The duty rate does not change either. The company stays at 7.3%, the rate for cooperating companies that were not in the sample¹. Nothing else in the ceramic tile duties changes.

Why did the Commission act on the name change?

Varmora Granito Private Limited told the Commission on March 19, 2026, that it had changed its name¹. It asked the Commission to confirm that its duty rate still applied under the new name¹.

The Commission checked the information the company sent. It found that the new name was properly registered with the authorities¹. It also found that the change did not create any new link with other company groups that the Commission had not investigated¹.

That second check matters. A company rate in an anti-dumping case belongs to the company that was examined. If a name change hid a new owner or a merger, the old rate might not fit. Here the Commission found no such change, so the findings of the 2023 regulation stand¹.

When does the new name apply?

The new regulation enters into force on the day after its publication¹. With publication on 20 October 2026, that is 21 October 2026.

The name itself applies from an earlier date. Code A013 covers Varmora Granito Limited as of May 14, 2025¹. That is the day India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs issued the company’s certificate of incorporation under its new name¹.

So the rule reaches back almost 17 months. Shipments declared since May 14, 2025, under the new company name are covered by the 7.3% company rate.

Can importers get duty back?

Yes. The regulation says customs must repay or cancel any duty paid above the company’s own rate¹. This applies to tiles made by Varmora Granito Limited¹. The repayment follows the normal EU customs rules¹.

This covers a likely problem at the border. Between May 2025 and October 2026, invoices carried the new name, but the duty list still showed the old one. Customs could then have refused the 7.3% rate and charged a higher rate instead. Those importers can now claim the difference from the customs office that collected it.

The regulation does not set a separate deadline for these claims. It points to the applicable customs legislation, so the usual EU time limits for repayment apply¹.

Which tiles do the duties cover?

The duties cover ceramic tiles originating in India and Türkiye². Tiles from other countries are not part of this case.

The new regulation does not change which tiles are covered¹. It touches only one line of the company list. Tiles from other Indian or Turkish makers keep the rate set for them in the 2023 regulation.

How did the ceramic tile duties start?

An anti-dumping duty is an extra import tax on goods sold abroad below their normal price. The EU uses it when such sales harm its own producers.

The ceramic tile case began with a complaint on 3 November 2021². It came from the European Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (CET), which spoke for EU tile makers². The complaint said Indian and Turkish tiles were dumped and were causing serious harm, called material injury, to EU producers².

The Commission opened its investigation on 13 December 2021². It studied the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021². Over 30% of EU tile production supported the complaint, and no producer opposed it².

The Commission then set definitive duties in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/265 of 9 February 2023². That regulation was published on 10 February 2023². It is the regulation the new act now amends¹.

How is a company rate used at the border?

The Commission did not examine every exporting company in detail. It worked with a sample of companies. Cooperating companies outside the sample received one shared rate, here 7.3%¹.

Each company on the list has its own TARIC additional code. The steps at the border work like this:

1. The importer declares the tiles and enters the maker’s code, A013 for Varmora Granito Limited¹.
2. Customs checks that the maker’s name on the invoice matches the name in the duty list.
3. If the names match, customs charges the company rate of 7.3%¹.

When the invoice name and the listed name differ, the match fails. That is why the Commission now writes the new name into Annex I¹.

Who is affected by the Varmora Granito change?

The change matters to a small group of traders:

• EU importers of Varmora Granito tiles can declare the new name with code A013 and keep the 7.3% rate.
• Importers who paid a higher rate since May 14, 2025, can claim the extra duty back¹.
• Customs brokers can match invoices under the new name to the existing code.
• Varmora Granito Limited keeps its rate without any new investigation¹.

Other Indian and Turkish tile makers see no change. Their names, codes and rates stay as they were.

Key points on the Varmora Granito tile duty update

The table below sums up the update.

From Oct. 21, 2026, tiles invoiced by Varmora Granito Limited clear EU customs at the same 7.3% rate as before. Duty paid above that rate since May 14, 2025, can be repaid under EU customs rules¹.

Sources

1. ↩ L_202602319EN.000101.fmx.xml https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202602319
2. ↩ Implementing regulation – 2023/265 – EN – EUR-Lex https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/265/oj