The European Commission has finalized its decision to impose anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of biodiesel and renewable diesel and has begun tracking imports of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The EU had previously imposed provisional anti-dumping measures on Chinese producers in August 2024 and confirmed new final measures on February 10, 2025, lowering duties against all previous suppliers.
Xavier Novoillon, secretary general of the European Biodiesel Board, said in a Feb. 11 statement, “The publication of the regulation imposing final anti-dumping duties on hydrogenated vegetable oils (HVO) and fatty acid methyl esters from China marks the end of a two-year procedure.” The commission initiated the proceeding, which culminated in a ruling on anti-dumping duties.
Chinese producers are now subject to anti-dumping duties of 35.6%, with some differences: a lower duty of 21.7% for the 40 companies that cooperated with the EU investigation, a 10% reduction for the EcoCeres group of companies, and a 23.4% reduction for the Excellence group of companies, the news shows.
Although SAF is not covered by the tariff, the EU introduced six new ten-digit import codes for SAF.
In the materials accompanying the final antidumping measures, published on February 10, the EU cited the arguments put forward by Neste (the party that filed the lawsuit following the imposition of provisional antidumping duties on Chinese biodiesel and HVO imports) in favor of extending the antidumping duties to SAF.
Chief among these is the option for Chinese producers to utilize 100 percent of their HVO production capacity to produce HEFA-SAF, which would allegedly result in a significant amount of Chinese SAF replacing HVO, which is currently subject to anti-dumping duties to meet road mix requirements.