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China’s Biodiesel Producers Seek Brand-new Outlets As Hefty EU Tariffs Bite
By Chen Aizhu
SINGAPORE, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Chinese biodiesel manufacturers are looking for new outlets in Asia for their exports and exploring producing other biofuels as supply to the European Union, their greatest purchaser, dries up ahead of anti-dumping tariffs, biofuel executives and experts stated.
The EU will impose provisional anti-dumping responsibilities of in between 12.8% and 36.4% on Chinese biodiesel from Friday, striking over 40 companies including leading manufacturers Zhejiang Jiaao, Henan Junheng and Longyan Zhuoyue Group in an export service that deserved $2.3 billion last year.
Some larger manufacturers are eyeing the marine fuel market in China and Singapore, the world’s leading marine fuel hub, as they look for to balance out currently falling biodiesel exports to the EU, biofuel executives stated.
Exports to the bloc have actually fallen dramatically because mid-2023 amid investigations. Volumes in the very first six months of this year plunged 51% from a year earlier to 567,440 lots, Chinese custom-mades information showed.
June deliveries shrank to just over 50,000 lots, the most affordable given that mid-2019, according to customizeds data.
At their peak, exports to the EU reached a record 1.8 million lots in 2023, representing 90% of all Chinese biodiesel exports that year. The Netherlands was the top importer in 2023, soaking in 84% of China’s biodiesel deliveries to the EU, followed by Belgium and Spain, Chinese custom-mades figures showed.
Chinese producers of biodiesel have enjoyed fat revenues recently, making the most of the EU’s green energy policy that gives subsidies to business that are utilizing biodiesel as a sustainable transportation fuel such as Repsol, Shell and Neste.
Many of China’s biodiesel manufacturers are privately-run small plants utilizing scores of workers processing waste oil collected from countless Chinese dining establishments. Before the biodiesel export boom, they were making lower-value goods like soaps and processing leather items.
However, the boom was short-lived. The EU began in August in 2015 investigating Indonesian biodiesel that was presumed of circumventing duties by going through China and Britain, followed by a 14-month anti-dumping probe into Chinese biodiesel thought to be priced artificially low and undercutting local .
Anticipating the tariffs, traders stocked up on utilized cooking oil (UCO), raising rates of the feedstock, while costs of biodiesel sank in view of shrinking need for the Chinese supply.
“With hefty prices of UCO partially supported by strong U.S. and European need, and free-falling item rates, business are having a hard time surviving,” stated Gary Shan, chief marketing officer of Henan Junheng.
Prices of hydrotreated grease, or HVO, a main kind of biodiesel, have halved versus last year’s average to the current $1,200 to $1,300 per metric lot and are off a peak of $3,000 in 2022, Shan included.
With low prices, biodiesel plants have actually cut their operations to an all-time low of under 20% of existing capacity typically in July, below a peak of 50% last seen in early 2023, according to Chinese consultancies Sublime China Information and JLC.
Meanwhile, diminishing biodiesel sales are enhancing China’s UCO exports, which experts anticipate are set to touch a new high this year. UCO exports skyrocketed by two-thirds year-on-year in the very first half of 2024 to 1.41 million tons, with the United States, Singapore and the Netherlands the top locations.
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While many smaller sized plants are likely to shutter production forever, bigger manufacturers like Zhejiang Jiaao, Leoking Enviro Group and Longyan Zhuoyue are exploring brand-new outlets including the marine fuel market in your home and in the important center of Singapore, which is utilizing more biodiesel for ship fuel mixing, according to the biofuel executives.
One of the manufacturers, Longyan Zhuoyue, agreed in January with COSCO Shipping to use more biodiesel in marine fuel.
Companies would likewise accelerate preparation and structure of sustainable air travel fuel (SAF) plants, executives stated. China is expected to announce an SAF mandate before completion of 2024.
They have actually also been hunting for new biodiesel customers outside the EU bloc, in Australia, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia where there are local mandates for the alternative fuel, the authorities added.
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)