EBB moves focus of biodiesel trade dispute with China from circumvention to dumping

After its success in identifying evidence of fraudulent practices and stopping the suspected reexporting of Indonesian biodiesel through the Port of Hainan in China, the European Biodiesel Board has moved to the next and most significant phase of its plan to combat the huge volumes of biodiesel imports from China that the organization says are causing such damage to the European industry.

EBB’s attention on unfair trade can now be fully focused on the investigation into dumping of Chinese biodiesel, the association stated.

“Our European businesses have been suffering severely from unfairly priced Chinese product and EBB is determined to defend the biodiesel industry’s interests and create a fair trading environment,” said EBB President Dickon Posnett.

“The anticircumvention case has done what we hoped it would,” Posnett added.

“The fact that the action immediately stopped around 470,000 tons of suspect shipments from Hainan is revealing, but now we plan to put all our energy into prosecuting the antidumping case to get measures in place as soon as possible,” he said.

The European Commission is continuing the anticircumvention investigation and will be assessing the latest developments and public interest.

Meanwhile, the registration of imports remains in place.

For EBB, the anticircumvention investigation has uncovered information regarding fraudulent activities that will be passed to the appropriate antifraud-investigation authorities.

EBB is working closely with those services of the European Commission that will now take those investigations forward as part of EBB’s continued efforts on antifraud, including proposed combined action with the European Commission, the voluntary schemes and certification bodies.