China drops DDGS anti-dumping case

Ethanol Producer Magazine
By Holly Jessen

June 22, 2012

Eighteen months after it was initiated, the anti-dumping investigation against U.S. dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) exports to China has been terminated. “This was an exceptional example of how competitors can come together to do what is correct,” said U.S. Grains Council President and CEO Thomas Dorr during a conference call June 22.

China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that the case was terminated after the three Chinese ethanol plants that initiated the case withdrew their petition on May 10. The Chinese companies were identified as AnHui Ethanol Co. Ltd., Jilin Fuel Alcohol Co. Ltd. and Meihekou Fukang Alcohol Co. Ltd. The termination signals the case is closed, said Mark McConnell, partner with Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, who served as an attorney for USGC and the ethanol industry. “From a legal perspective we’re essentially in the position we were before the anti-dumping investigation was filed in the first place,” he added. “The bottom line here is the investigation has come to a close without the imposition of duties.”

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