Truck tyres from China: EU introduces definitive duties

After being in force for exactly four years, on 4 May 2022 the General Court of the European Union annulled Regulation (EU) 2018/683, overturning the regimen of anti-dumping duties being imposed upon truck and bus tyres imported from China. The European Commission subsequently partially re-opened its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation, disclosing its findings on 10 January 2023. The Commission has now published details of definitive measures.

On 4 April 2023, the European Commission introduced Regulation (EU) 2023/737, which re-imposes a “definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of certain pneumatic tyres, new or retreaded, of rubber, of a kind used for buses or lorries, with a load index exceeding 121 originating in the People’s Republic of China.” The regulation calls for anti-dumping duties of between 0 euros and 35.74 euros from 13 November 2018, and between 21.12 euros and 61.76 euros for the period between 8 May 2018 and 12 November 2018.

Read the EC document in full here.