UFOP welcomes anti-dumping duties on biodiesel imports from China

The Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen (UFOP) has welcomed the definitive duty imposed by the EU Commission on biodiesel imports from China.
Chinese companies are not only partly responsible for the price pressure in the EU market, but also for the suspected fraudulent imports, which in turn require stricter certification requirements and, in particular, a registration procedure for biofuel producers.
With the publication in the EU Official Journal on 10 February, the EU Commission put into force the amount of the final anti-dumping duties on imports of biodiesel.
Depending on the biofuel producers affected, these amount to between 10% and 35.6% of the CIF price (costs, insurance, freight) duty unpaid free EU border and replace the previous transitional duties. Around 50 companies in China are affected.
UFOP also welcomes the fact that the EU Commission has rejected the application by Chinese companies to exclude hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) from the anti-dumping measures and regrets that the import of aviation fuels (SAF), which are produced using the same process as HVO, is excluded, UFOP shares the biofuel industry's fears that this will leave a loophole and is therefore calling for strict declaration and proof of suitability as aviation fuel in accordance with the fuel specifications up to the storage tank of the distributor for blending with fossil paraffin. Aviation fuels are naturally characterised by high filterability.