China slaps anti-dumping duties on TDI products from EU

BEIJING: China will impose anti-dumping duties ranging between 6.6 per cent and 37.7 per cent on imported Toluene Diisocyanate ( TDI) from the European Union (EU), from tomorrow, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said.

The duties will last for five years, according to a ministry statement issued here on Tuesday.

The final ruling came after the ministry found that the domestic industry has been "substantially" harmed by the EU's dumping of TDI in its investigations, which begun last March, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

TDI, a main raw material of polyurethane products, is widely used in the industries of rubber surface coating, textile processing, petroleum, mining, automobiles and railway transport.