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China’s Biodiesel Producers Seek new Outlets As Hefty EU Tariffs Bite
By Chen Aizhu
SINGAPORE, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Chinese biodiesel producers are seeking new outlets in Asia for their exports and checking out producing other biofuels as supply to the European Union, their most significant purchaser, dries up ahead of anti-dumping tariffs, biofuel executives and analysts said.
The EU will enforce provisional anti-dumping tasks 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 organization that was worth $2.3 billion last year.
Some bigger producers are considering the marine fuel market in China and Singapore, the world’s top marine fuel center, as they look for to balance out currently falling biodiesel exports to the EU, biofuel executives stated.
Exports to the bloc have actually fallen sharply since mid-2023 amid investigations. Volumes in the first 6 months of this year plunged 51% from a year previously to 567,440 lots, Chinese custom-mades information revealed.
June deliveries shrank to just over 50,000 loads, the most affordable because mid-2019, according to customizeds data.
At their peak, exports to the EU a record 1.8 million heaps in 2023, representing 90% of all Chinese biodiesel exports that year. The Netherlands was the leading importer in 2023, taking in 84% of China’s biodiesel shipments to the EU, followed by Belgium and Spain, Chinese customs figures revealed.
Chinese producers of biodiesel have taken pleasure in fat earnings in current years, taking advantage of the EU’s green energy policy that gives aids to business that are utilizing biodiesel as a sustainable transport fuel such as Repsol, Shell and Neste.
Many of China’s biodiesel producers are privately-run little plants using scores of workers processing waste oil collected from millions of Chinese restaurants. Before the biodiesel export boom, they were making lower-value products like soaps and processing leather items.
However, the boom was short-term. The EU began in August last year investigating Indonesian biodiesel that was thought of preventing tasks by going through China and Britain, followed by a 14-month anti-dumping probe into Chinese biodiesel thought to be priced synthetically low and undercutting local producers.
Anticipating the tariffs, traders stockpiled on utilized cooking oil (UCO), raising costs of the feedstock, while prices of biodiesel sank in view of diminishing demand for the Chinese supply.
“With hefty rates of UCO partially supported by strong U.S. and European need, and free-falling item prices, business are having a tough time enduring,” stated Gary Shan, primary 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 present $1,200 to $1,300 per metric load and are off a peak of $3,000 in 2022, Shan added.
With low rates, biodiesel plants have cut their operations to an all-time low of under 20% of existing capability typically in July, down from a peak of 50% last seen in early 2023, according to Chinese consultancies Sublime China Information and JLC.
Meanwhile, shrinking biodiesel sales are boosting 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 heaps, with the United States, Singapore and the Netherlands the top destinations.
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While lots of smaller plants are most likely to shutter production indefinitely, bigger manufacturers like Zhejiang Jiaao, Leoking Enviro Group and Longyan Zhuoyue are checking out new outlets including the marine fuel market at home and in the important center of Singapore, which is using more biodiesel for ship fuel mixing, according to the biofuel executives.
Among the producers, Longyan Zhuoyue, concurred in January with COSCO Shipping to use more biodiesel in marine fuel.
Companies would likewise accelerate preparation and building of sustainable air travel fuel (SAF) plants, executives said. China is expected to announce an SAF required before the end of 2024.
They have likewise been scouting for new biodiesel clients outside the EU bloc, in Australia, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia where there are local requireds for the alternative fuel, the officials added.
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)