Breaking through the clouds and mist, finding constancy amidst change.
On November 13th 2023, the European Commission, on behalf of the 27 member States of the European Union, launched an anti-dumping investigation into titanium dioxide originating in China. Total 26 titanium dioxide production enterprises in China carried out the industry's no-harm defense.On January 9th 2025, the European Commission announced the final ruling.
The European Commission announced the disclosure of facts before the preliminary ruling on June 13th 2024, announced the preliminary ruling on July 11th 2024, which calculating the anti-dumping duty rate according to the dumping margin: LB Group 39.7%, Anhui Jinxing 14.4%, other responding enterprises 35%, other non-responding enterprises 39.7%. Through the joint efforts of enterprises, applied for a hearing to the European Commission, Chinese enterprises put forward relevant opinions with reasonable grounds. The European Commission, according to the disclosure of the facts before the final ruling, on November 1st 2024, also announced the anti-dumping duty rate: LB Group 32.3%, Anhui Jinxing 11.4%, other responding enterprises 28.4%, other non-responding enterprises 32.3%, where the duty rate is slightly lower than the preliminary ruling and also with no retroactively levied.
Breaking through the clouds and mist, finding constancy amidst change.
On January 9th 2025, the European Commission issued a final ruling on the anti-dumping investigation of titanium dioxide in China, officially imposed anti-dumping duty on titanium dioxide products in China: excluded titanium dioxide for ink, titanium dioxide for non-white paint, food grade, sunscreen, high purity grade, anatase, chloride and other titanium dioxide products are listed as anti-dumping duties. The method of levying anti-dumping duties is changed from the percentage form of AD valorem levy to the volume levy, specifications: LB Group 0.74 euros/kg, Anhui Jinjin 0.25 euros/kg, other responding enterprises 0.64 euros/kg, other non-responding enterprises 0.74 euros/kg. Provisional anti-dumping duties shall still be imposed from the date of publication of the preliminary ruling and shall not be reduced or exempted. No subject to the delivery time but subject to the customs declaration time at the discharge port. No retrospective collection. EU importers are required to provide commercial invoices with specific declarations at the customs of each Member State as required, in order to apply the above anti-dumping duties. The difference between preliminary anti-dumping duty and final anti-dumping duty should be dealt with by means of more refund and less compensation. Eligible new exporters can then apply for average tax rates.
We find that the EU anti-dumping tariff policy on titanium dioxide from China has taken a more restrained and pragmatic attitude, where the reason is: Firstly, the huge gap of capacity and need, EU still need to import titanium dioxide from China. Secondly, EU found that it’s very difficult to obtain positive benefits from the Sino-European trade friction now. Finally, Trump's trade war pressure on the EU has also prompted the EU to try to avoid confrontation on too many fronts. In the future, titanium dioxide production capacity in China and the global share shall continue to expand, the impact of EU anti-dumping will be limited more, but the process shall be bound to be difficult with full of pain. How to find development in this historical event in TiO2, it’s the great mission and opportunity for each TiO2 practitioner.
Post time: Jan-15-2025
