EU extends Chinese truck tyre tariffs

Commission publishes final decision after deliberations going back to 2023

The European Commission has published its final decision on extending the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on truck and bus tyres produced in China. The new tariffs amount to figures between €21.12 and a maximum of €78.90 per tyre, effective immediately following the 16 January publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/58 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/61, both of 15 January 2025.

Within the implementing regulations, the Commission revealed that it had verified data used to validate the renewed tariffs with a group of five retread tyre producers based in the European Union and with two groups of sampled new tyre producers in China. The former includes Lapin Kumi Oy, from Finland; RuLa-BRW GmbH, from Germany; Italy’s Marangoni S.P.A; and two more Union producers which requested confidentiality. The sampled producers in China, all notably operating within two companies that are headquartered offshore, were grouped as the Giti Group and the Hankook Group.

The full list of the tariffs imposed by the European Commission are detailed in the tables on this page, but a few of the producers are notable for different reasons. Firstly, there are the two sampled groups mentioned above. Giti, which produces truck tyres in Anhui and Fujian, is subject to countervailing duty of €11.07 and anti-dumping duty of €35.74, meaning a total of €46.81 on each tyre imported from its factories in China. After the original round of EU tariffs were implemented in 2018, Giti shifted production of many TBR products bound for Europe to its facilities in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The other sampled group of producers, the production facilities in Chongqing and Jiangsu operating under Korea-based Hankook, have a comparatively lighter tariff load. The Commission has levied €3.75 countervailing and €17.37 anti-dumping duties on Hankook’s China-produced TBRs, in total €21.12.

In addition to the companies listed in the tables on these pages, there are three groups of named companies subject to countervailing and antidumping tariffs. Other companies cooperating in both anti-subsidy and anti-dumping investigation, subject to €27.69 countervailing duties and €21.62 anti-dumping duties are: Bayi Rubber Co., Ltd; Bridgestone (Huizhou) Tire Co., Ltd; Megalith Industrial Group Co., Ltd; Michelin Shenyang Tire Co., Ltd; Nanjing Kumho Tire Co., Ltd; Qingdao Fudong Tyre Co., Ltd; Qingdao Hairunsen Tyre Co., Ltd; Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group Rubber Co., Ltd; Shandong Changfeng Tyres Co., Ltd; Shandong Haohua Tire Co., Ltd; Shandong Hengfeng Rubber & Plastic Co., Ltd; Shandong Homerun Tires Co., Ltd; Shandong Hugerubber Co., Ltd; Shandong Mirage Tyres Co., Ltd; Shandong Vheal Group Co., Ltd; Shandong Wosen Rubber Co., Ltd; Shandong Yongfeng Tyres Co., Ltd; Shandong Yongsheng Rubber Group Co., Ltd; Shandong Santai Rubber Co., Ltd; Shandong Yongtai Group Co., Ltd; Shengtai Group Co., Ltd; Toyo Tire (Zhucheng) Co., Ltd; Weifang Goldshield Tire Co., Ltd; and Xuzhou Armour Rubber Company Ltd.

Other companies subject to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/738 cooperating in both investigations, which will attract €27.69 countervailing and €10.29 anti-dumping duties, are: Chaoyang Long March Tyre Co., Ltd; Triangle Tyre Co., Ltd; Shandong Wanda Boto Tyre Co., Ltd; Qingdao Doublestar Tire Industrial Co., Ltd; Ningxia Shenzhou Tire Co., Ltd; Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd; Shandong Huasheng Rubber Co., Ltd; Prinx Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Co., Ltd; Shandong Linglong Tyre Co., Ltd; Shandong Jinyu Tire Co., Ltd; Sailun Group Co., Ltd; Shandong Kaixuan Rubber Co., Ltd; Weifang Shunfuchang Rubber And Plastic Products Co., Ltd; Shandong Hengyu Science & Technology Co., Ltd; Jiangsu General Science Technology Co., Ltd; Shanghai Huayi Group Corp. Ltd; Double Coin Group (Jiang Su) Tyre Co., Ltd; and Qingdao GRT Rubber Co., Ltd.

Finally, €57.28 countervailing duties only will be applied to Briway Tire Co., Ltd; Goodyear Dalian Tire Company Limited; Shandong Hawk International Rubber Industry Co., Ltd; Sichuan Kalevei Technology Co., Ltd; and Zhongce Rubber Group Co., Ltd.

All other truck tyre imports originating in China will be subject to €57.28 countervailing and €4.48 anti-dumping duties.

China-produced truck tyre tariffs since 2018

The history of the EU’s imposition of these tariffs dates back to 4 May 2018, when the Commission first imposed “a provisional 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 (‘tyres’ or ‘product concerned’) originating in the People’s Republic of China (‘PRC’)” in Regulation (EU) 2018/683. This was followed by a definitive ruling on 18 October 2018 (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1579) for anti-dumping duties and a further amendment on countervailing duties (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1690) on 9 November 2018. These regulations were later annulled by General Court of the European Union on 4 May 2022 following a legal challenge by the China Rubber Industry Association (CRIA) and China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters (CCCMC).

Finally, following a new investigation, the Commission re-imposed duties on 4 April 2023 via Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/737 (anti-dumping duties) and 2023/738 (countervailing duties). The result of this meant that, before 15 January, the countervailing duties in place were between €3.75 and €57.28 per item.