Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association are asking the Obama administration to file a complaint with the WTO against China’s anti-dumping investigation into DDGs imports from the United States. Growth Energy Vice President and Chief Economist Jim Miller says both the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations by the Chinese need to be reviewed.
He says the U.S. companies don’t have some of the information the Chinese are looking for and the Chinese have not been clear about what they want.
Miller says a firm challenge needs to be brought against the Chinese over both anti-dumping allegations and possible countervailing duties.
Growth Energy and RFA officials both say that China’s actions have already led to dried distillers grains losing $30 to $35 a ton. And those losses could rise to $50 to $60 a ton or more. If the U.S. DDGs export market to China would go away, the loss is estimated at more than $2 billion.
