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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 seeking new outlets in Asia for their exports and exploring producing other biofuels as supply to the European Union, their greatest buyer, dries up ahead of anti-dumping tariffs, biofuel executives and analysts said.
The EU will impose provisionary anti-dumping responsibilities of between 12.8% and 36.4% on Chinese biodiesel from Friday, striking over 40 business consisting of leading producers Zhejiang Jiaao, Henan Junheng and Longyan Zhuoyue Group in an export business that deserved $2.3 billion in 2015.
Some larger producers are eyeing the marine fuel market in China and Singapore, the world’s top 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 fallen dramatically considering that mid-2023 . Volumes in the first 6 months of this year plunged 51% from a year previously to 567,440 tons, Chinese customizeds information showed.
June deliveries shrank to simply over 50,000 tons, the most affordable because mid-2019, according to custom-mades information.
At their peak, exports to the EU reached 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, soaking in 84% of China’s biodiesel deliveries to the EU, followed by Belgium and Spain, Chinese custom-mades figures revealed.
Chinese producers of biodiesel have actually taken pleasure in fat profits in the last few years, making the many of the EU’s green energy policy that approves aids to business that are using biodiesel as a sustainable transport fuel such as Repsol, Shell and Neste.
Much of China’s biodiesel producers are privately-run little plants employing ratings of workers processing waste oil collected from millions of Chinese restaurants. 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 started in August in 2015 investigating Indonesian biodiesel that was suspected of circumventing responsibilities by going through China and Britain, followed by a 14-month anti-dumping probe into Chinese biodiesel believed to be priced artificially low and damaging local manufacturers.
Anticipating the tariffs, traders stockpiled on utilized cooking oil (UCO), raising rates of the feedstock, while costs of biodiesel sank in view of shrinking demand for the Chinese supply.
”With hefty rates of UCO partly supported by strong U.S. and European demand, and free-falling product prices, companies are having a bumpy ride enduring,” said Gary Shan, chief marketing officer of Henan Junheng.
Prices of hydrotreated vegetable oil, or HVO, a primary type of biodiesel, have halved versus in 2015’s average to the existing $1,200 to $1,300 per metric heap and are off a peak of $3,000 in 2022, Shan added.
With low rates, biodiesel plants have actually cut their operations to a lowest level of under 20% of existing capability on average 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 enhancing China’s UCO exports, which analysts anticipate are set to touch a brand-new high this year. UCO exports skyrocketed by two-thirds year-on-year in the 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 checking out new outlets consisting of the marine fuel market in your home and in the crucial hub of Singapore, which is utilizing 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 planning and structure of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plants, executives stated. China is expected to announce an SAF mandate before the end of 2024.
They have also been hunting for new biodiesel customers outside the EU bloc, in Australia, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia where there are regional requireds for the alternative fuel, the officials added.
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)