EU imposes definitive anti-dumping duties on 1,4-Butanediol from China, Saudi Arabia and the USA
Customs authorities must apply definitive anti-dumping duties to 1,4-Butanediol imports from China, Saudi Arabia and the USA
Change
On 22 June 2026 the European Commission adopted Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1373 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of 1,4-Butanediol originating in the People's Republic of China, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, and ordering definitive collection of the provisional duties secured under Regulation (EU) 2026/270; the Regulation enters into force the day after its publication in the Official Journal.
Why it matters
Individual company duty rates apply only on presentation of a valid commercial invoice carrying the specified signed declaration; until that invoice is presented, the all-other-imports country rate applies. Amounts secured under the provisional duties are definitively collected up to the definitive rates, with any excess released. A significant post-measures increase in exports by a company benefiting from a lower individual rate may be treated as a change in the pattern of trade and can trigger an anti-circumvention investigation removing that individual rate and imposing a country-wide duty.
Implications
- — Member States' customs authorities must apply the definitive anti-dumping duty rates to 1,4-Butanediol import declarations from China, Saudi Arabia and the USA and verify the documentary conditions before granting any individual company rate — applying an individual rate without the prescribed invoice mis-applies the duty.
- — Importers and customs-clearing agents of 1,4-Butanediol into the EU must present the commercial invoice bearing the prescribed signed declaration to obtain an individual company rate; absent that invoice the all-other-imports country rate applies, and provisional duty payments are reconciled against the definitive rates with any excess released.
- — Exporting producers benefiting from individual duty rates must control post-measures export volumes — a significant volume increase can be treated as a change in the pattern of trade under Article 13(1), triggering an anti-circumvention investigation that can remove the individual rate and impose the country-wide duty.
Who is affected
- — Member States' customs authorities
- — Importers and customs-clearing agents of 1,4-Butanediol into the EU
- — Exporting producers benefiting from individual anti-dumping duty rates