China Reviewing Antidumping Tariffs on US Distillers Grains

The U.S. Grains Council is asking China to eliminate antidumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on American distillers grains, according to a report from Reuters. China’s Ministry of Commerce will review the request and the tariffs on the grains, an animal feed ingredient, according to the report.

The grains, a byproduct of ethanol production, are a “key contributor to profits for makers of the biofuel,” Reuters said. Chinese tariffs on the grains in 2016 caused imports to fall “sharply,” the report said. China’s current antidumping tariffs on the distillers grains, updated in January 2017, range between 42.2 percent and 53.7 percent, according to the report, up from the initial 33.8 percent duty implemented in 2016.

Reuters said the China Alcoholic Drinks Association sent a document about Commerce’s review of the antidumping tariffs to its member companies on April 8. The document asked companies to submit information to the association before April 10 “regarding their sales and production” of the distillers grains from recent years, according to Reuters.