No Anti-Dumping Measure against Argentine Biodiesel - EU Commission Abandons EU Agriculture

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October 05, 2018

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(UFOP (Google translation)) Deeply disappointed and deceived, the European Oilseed Alliance (EOA) sees itself confronted with the completely surprising decision by the European Commission not to introduce retroactive punitive tariffs against the biodiesel quantities imported from Argentina since September 2017 , Last year, the European Commission suddenly stopped collecting anti-dumping duties on imports of soybean biodiesel from Argentina. This was immediately followed by a complaint from the European Biodiesel Federation (EBB), which was to introduce a countervailing duty. This is intended to offset the subsidies granted by the Argentine state to its exporting biodiesel industry. The UFOP urges the federal government to

This decision is simply incomprehensible to the European oilseed farmers and the biodiesel sector: Between September 2017 and September 2018, a whopping 1.5 million tonnes of Argentine soybean biodiesel were imported into the EU (peaking at 222,000 tonnes in July). In the context of increasing trade tensions (a similar complaint is filed against heavily subsidized Indonesian biodiesel), "European farmers will be held hostage again," said EOA President Arnaud Rousseau. While the US government decided at the beginning of the year to introduce countervailing duties on subsidized biodiesel from Argentina, the inaction of the EU Commission and its trade defense policy lead to even greater deliveries of Argentine biodiesel to the EU. "

To avoid this and to alleviate the serious shortcomings of the Commission Recommendation, the Association President urges all Member States to raise this issue at the meeting of the Trade Defense Instruments Committee on 3 October 2018 and the European Union To defend the oilseeds sector. READ MORE

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