Update: EU reimposes anti-dumping duties on Chinese truck & bus tires

Brussels – The European Commission (EC) has reimposed anti-dumping duties (see table below) on imports of new and retreaded truck & bus tires originating from China, which were originally applied on 4 May 2018.

In May 2022, the European General Court ruled that the Commission’s five-year anti-dumping and countervailing duties on imports of truck & bus tires from China must be annulled.

The EC, it found, had not carried out fair price comparisons in calculating price-undercutting in a case brought by the China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) and China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters.

The Brussels regulator, on 7 July 2022, re-opened its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations concerning Chinese truck and bus tires to address “illegalities” identified by the European General Court.

The trade measures were introduced 4 April following detailed, company-by-company analyses of import volumes, selling prices and other aspects of EU anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations. 

More details to follow...

Definitive anti-dumping and countervailing duties announced with reimposition of measures on 4 April 2023*

*ERJ will report further on this development both online and in the May/June issue of European Rubber Journal magazine.