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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 manufacturers are seeking new outlets in Asia for their exports and exploring producing other biofuels as supply to the European Union, their most significant purchaser, dries up ahead of anti-dumping tariffs, biofuel executives and analysts stated.

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 service that was worth $2.3 billion last year.

Some bigger producers are considering the marine fuel market in China and Singapore, the world’s leading marine fuel center, as they seek to balance out currently falling biodiesel exports to the EU, biofuel executives stated.

Exports to the bloc have actually fallen sharply since mid-2023 in the middle of examinations. Volumes in the very first six months of this year plunged 51% from a year earlier to 567,440 tons, Chinese custom-mades information showed.

June shipments shrank to just over 50,000 heaps, the most affordable given that mid-2019, according to customs 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, taking in 84% of China’s biodiesel deliveries to the EU, followed by Belgium and Spain, Chinese custom-mades figures revealed.

Chinese manufacturers of biodiesel have actually enjoyed fat earnings recently, maximizing 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.

Much of China’s biodiesel manufacturers are privately-run little plants using scores of workers processing waste oil gathered from countless Chinese restaurants. Before the biodiesel export boom, they were making lower-value items like soaps and processing leather items.

However, the boom was short-lived. The EU started in August in 2015 examining Indonesian biodiesel that was thought of circumventing tasks by going through China and Britain, followed by a 14-month anti-dumping probe into Chinese biodiesel thought to be priced artificially low and damaging regional manufacturers.

Anticipating the tariffs, traders stocked up on used cooking oil (UCO), raising prices of the feedstock, while rates of biodiesel sank in view of diminishing need for the Chinese supply.

“With hefty costs of UCO partly supported by strong U.S. and European need, and free-falling product costs, companies are having a hard time making it through,” said Gary Shan, primary marketing officer of Henan Junheng.

Prices of hydrotreated grease, or HVO, a main type of biodiesel, have cut in half versus last year’s average to the existing $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 actually cut their operations to a lowest level of under 20% of existing capability on average in July, below 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 experts forecast are set to touch a brand-new high this year. UCO exports skyrocketed by two-thirds year-on-year in the very first half of 2024 to 1.41 million loads, with the United States, Singapore and the Netherlands the top locations.

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While many smaller sized plants are most likely to shutter production indefinitely, larger manufacturers like Zhejiang Jiaao, Leoking Enviro Group and Longyan Zhuoyue are exploring brand-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 manufacturers, Longyan Zhuoyue, concurred in January with COSCO Shipping to utilize more in marine fuel.

Companies would also speed up preparation and structure of sustainable air travel fuel (SAF) plants, executives said. China is anticipated to reveal an SAF required before completion of 2024.

They have actually also been searching 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 included.

(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)

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