UK’s Trade Remedies Authority keeps biodiesel duties in place but drops those on HVO

In the UK, in its initial findings, the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has proposed that existing measures on imports of FAME biodiesel are kept, but that measures on imports of HVO biodiesel are removed. The TRA’s provisional findings, contained in the Statements of Essential Facts, would mean that the UK’s FAME production industry continued to be protected from dumped and subsidized biodiesel from the USA, including where consigned through Canada, but that HVO from these countries could be imported to the benefit of the UK’s agricultural and transport industries, as well as users of oil fired heating. A 30 day period for comments is now open.