Chinese companies actively respond, eu significantly lowers final tariff rate on chinese epoxy resin

On July 28, 2025, local time, the European Union officially announced the final ruling:

The regulation on the imposition of final anti-dumping duties on imports of epoxy resin originating in the People's Republic of China, the Taiwan region of China, and Thailand, and the termination of the investigation on epoxy resin originating in South Korea, has officially come into effect.

Core Conclusion

The EU decides:

1. Impose official anti-dumping duties on epoxy resin originating from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Thailand.

2. Impose definitive anti-dumping duties on the temporary anti-dumping duties previously levied on the aforementioned three regions.

3. Terminate the anti-dumping investigation on epoxy resin from South Korea, concluding that no dumping occurred or that it did not cause material injury to the EU industry.

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The final anti-dumping duty rates for all parties are as follows.

It is worth mentioning that Beijing National Institute of New Materials (ACMI), together with major domestic epoxy resin export companies, actively participated in this EU anti-dumping investigation by proactively submitting detailed data and conducting professional defense.

With the joint efforts of all parties, the European Commission significantly lowered the anti-dumping duty rates for Chinese enterprises in the final ruling, with the main adjustments as follows:

• Jiangsu Sanmu Group: Temporary tax rate reduced from 24.2% to a final tax rate of 17.3%, a decrease of nearly 30%.

• Subsidiaries under Sinochem Group: decreased from 40.8% to 33.0%;

• Other cooperating enterprises in the investigation: decreased from 30.3% to 23.0%;

• All other Chinese exporters: the tax rate has been reduced from 40.8% to 33.0%.

This indicates that actively responding to the lawsuit not only effectively secured a reasonable ruling, but also significantly reduced the export cost burden for enterprises.

More importantly, the final ruling of this case fully demonstrates the continuous improvement of the Chinese epoxy resin industry's ability to respond to international trade rules, and the gradual maturation of compliance and coordination mechanisms.

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Background Review:

On July 1, 2024, the European Commission officially launched an anti-dumping investigation, with the complainant being a "temporary alliance" formed by local epoxy resin producers in the EU.

In February 2025, the European Union will begin imposing provisional anti-dumping duties on epoxy resin from mainland China, Taiwan, and Thailand.

The surveyed parties mainly include:

• China: Jiangsu Sanmu, a subsidiary of Sinochem Group;

• South Asia Plastics (Nan Ya Plastics), Taiwan, China.

• Thailand: Aditya Birla.

The investigated company submitted a large number of objections on issues such as the method of constructing normal value, the choice of surrogate country, electricity and labor costs, time-of-use electricity price adjustments, and the logic for calculating SG&A.

The European Commission partially adopted reasonable suggestions and adjusted key calculation methods, such as electricity price accounting, labor hours, electricity price insurance costs, and SG&A deductions excluding transportation fees.

Product Range Description:

The products involved are liquid and solid epoxy resins, including but not limited to:

• Basic type

• Special type: brominated epoxy resin, phenolic epoxy resin (such as BPF, Novolac)

Excluding curing agents, compounded systems, and downstream products of epoxy resin.